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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
-- Victor Hugo


Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, is the novel that contains the longest sentence in literature. The sentence has 823 words.


Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
-- Victor Hugo


All officers in the Confederate army were given copies of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, to carry with them at all times. Robert E. Lee, among others, believed the book symbolized their cause.


The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved
for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo


An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo, Ninetythree, 1874


To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.

-- Victor Hugo


A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
-- Victor Hugo


Habit is the nursery of errors.

-- Victor Hugo


I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the
streets and frighten the horses.

-- Victor Hugo


I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the
streets and frighten the horses.
-- Victor Hugo


We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in
spite of what we are.
-- Victor Hugo


Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
-- Victor Hugo


Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old
age.

-- Victor Hugo


We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in
spite of what we are.
-- Victor Hugo


I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the
streets and frighten the horses.
-- Victor Hugo