Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. — Quoted

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“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”

Victor Hugo · Peace

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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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