Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, and memory is the servant.

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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, and memory is the servant.

-- Victor Hugo

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

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

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