"In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Dâ€”â€” He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of Dâ€”â€” since 1806."

-- Victor Hugo

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“If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life.”
“I feel like I just want to enjoy life and spend time with my daughter who is about to turn two, which is full-time job and the hardest job I've ever had in my life.”
“There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!”
“How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves? ... Without a strong constitution to counteract the strong tendency of government to disorder and abuse there can be little progress or improvement.”
“Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]”
“So many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface of specific proteins, referred to as enzymes, that it seems fairly safe to assume that all are of this nature and that the proteins are the necessary basis for carrying out the processes that we call life.”
“We trust things more when they look like they were done for the love of it rather than the sheer commercial value of it.”
“There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.”

Source : "Cosmotheoros". Book by Christiaan Huygens, Book 1, p. 10; As quoted in the English translation "The Celestial Worlds Discover'd" (1722), 1698.

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