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“We live in a sad society. Succeed - that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“There are instincts for all the encounters of life.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“Let your rain be your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“I always think that if an animal likes you, it must mean that you're not a completely wicked person.”
― Before Green Gables
― Before Green Gables
“There occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. These resemblances of the sewer to remorse had their good points; they were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at the audacity of its mire, and did not admit that the filth should return. Drive it out better.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
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