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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Stupidity talks, vanity acts. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. ↗

— David Hume

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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. ↗

— David Hume

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My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues. ↗

— John Hume

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In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food. ↗

— Joseph Hume

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