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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
[L’homme sage mûrit et ne vieillit pas.]
Source:
Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography (Postscriptum de Ma Vie) (1907), Chapter XIII. Thoughts, Page 386
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Name:
Victor Hugo
Profession:
Writer, Poet, Novelist
Born:
February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885
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