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America1 quote
Take away time is money, and what is left of England? Take away cotton is king, and what is left of America? — Victor Hugo · 1862England1 quote
Take away time is money, and what is left of England? Take away cotton is king, and what is left of America? — Victor Hugo · 1862Fame1 quote
Popularity? It is glory's small change. — Victor Hugo · 1838Glory1 quote
Popularity? It is glory's small change. — Victor Hugo · 1838God1 quote
God is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood. God is tyranny and poverty; God is evil. For as long as men bow before altars, mankind will remain damned, the slaves of kings and priests. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · 1846Life1 quote
Life is a flower of which love is the honey. — Victor Hugo · 1862Limits of language1 quote
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. — Victor Hugo · 1864Love1 quote
Life is a flower of which love is the honey. — Victor Hugo · 1862Love and life1 quote
Life is a flower of which love is the honey. — Victor Hugo · 1862Mistakes1 quote
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. — Victor Hugo · 1862Nature of God1 quote
God is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood. God is tyranny and poverty; God is evil. For as long as men bow before altars, mankind will remain damned, the slaves of kings and priests. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · 1846Popularity1 quote
Popularity? It is glory's small change. — Victor Hugo · 1838Power of ideas1 quote
An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted. — Victor Hugo · 1878Property rights1 quote
Property is theft. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · 1840Thoughts1 quote
One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor and invisible labor. — Victor Hugo · 1862