The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the faint-hearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and the valiant, it is the ideal.
— Victor Hugo Modern

Les Miserables

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Les Misérables, Volume V, Book 1, Chapter 5

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1862

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Humorous

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