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All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
Fiction
Richard Hughes

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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Human Rights
Victor Hugo

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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Curiosity
Victor Hugo

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Danger
Victor Hugo

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Critics and Criticism
Victor Hugo

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Action
Victor Hugo

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Books - Reading
Victor Hugo

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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Waste
Victor Hugo

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Thoughts and Thinking
Victor Hugo

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]
Love
Victor Hugo

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Toleration is the best religion.
Religion
Victor Hugo

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Age and Aging
Victor Hugo

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Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
Potential
Victor Hugo

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.
Anger
Bobby Hull

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.
Marriage
Raymond Hull

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Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Competency
Raymond Hull

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Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.
Army and Navy
Sir Richard Hull

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Government
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
Enjoyment
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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And what is the greatest number? Number one.
Competition
David Hume

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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
Thoughts and Thinking
David Hume

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
Life and Living
David Hume

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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Government
David Hume

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Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
Mother-in-Laws
Hubert H. Humphrey

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Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Debate
Hubert H. Humphrey

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun