Victor Hugo Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars - all the beauties of creation.	Absence
2	Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.	Adversity
3	Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.	Aging
4	As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.	Charity
5	Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.	Common Sense
6	There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.	Country
7	Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.	Danger
8	Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant.	Despotism
9	Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.	Dispute
10	Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.	Enthusiasm

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