Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.


Victor Hugo

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Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
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I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one.
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To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
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No man is a hero to his valet. [Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]
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He's of stature somewhat low-- Your hero always should be tall, you know.
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As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.) [Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.]
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My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song.
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Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.
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When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...
VICTOR HUGO