So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
Victor Hugo
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There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. Victor Hugo
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