[He] had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think.

Victor Hugo
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  3. Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. - L.m. Montgomery

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  3. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  4. Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>All at once, at...

  5. You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

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