Comparison shopping is difficult enough. This just seems like a step in the wrong direction. You end up comparing apples and hamburgers.


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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who b...
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
VICTOR HUGO
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
VICTOR HUGO
King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close ...
VICTOR HUGO
To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
VICTOR HUGO
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
VICTOR HUGO
A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO
The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
VICTOR HUGO
You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It...
VICTOR HUGO
A library implies an act of faith
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
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