His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a p…

Victor Hugo
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed. ✨ Victor Hugo (1980). Les misérables, Viking Pr
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