We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.


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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