Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket. ✨ Victor Hugo, …

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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket. ✨ Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, p.68
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