Famous quotes containing the words professor, hugo and/or strange:
“Indeed, there is hardly the professor in our colleges, who, if he has mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the language, has proportionally mastered the difficulties of the wit and poetry of a Greek poet, and has any sympathy to impart to the alert and heroic reader.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Mother’s arms are made of tenderness,
And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
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