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For four days there were warnings that the hurricane was going to make a direct hit, and the king of vacations at his ranch only said, 'You must flee,' ... He did not say how.


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VICTOR HUGO The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist...
VICTOR HUGO And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. F...
VICTOR HUGO