A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate…

Victor Hugo
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion. ✨ Victor Hugo (1980). Les misérables, Viking Pr
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