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Victor Hugo Quotes
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
[L’oisiveté est le plus lourd des accablements.]
Source:
Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography (Postscriptum de Ma Vie) (1907), Chapter XIII. Thoughts, Page 360
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Victor Hugo
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Writer, Poet, Novelist
Born:
February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885
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