Victor Hugo Quotes About Language
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The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
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