Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver …

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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God! ✨ Victor Hugo (1863). Les misérables, p.66
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