17th century Quote by Victor Hugo

““It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity, a curious variety of civilization; a tiger with a simper.””

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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

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“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”

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