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• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love.
  His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul....
• To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother. -- Victor Hugo
• Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. -- Victor Hugo
• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
  Each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, forsight and coherence that its own experience belies....
• Habit is the nursery of errors. -- Victor Hugo
• If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it. -- Ernest Hemingway