Victor Hugo quote: Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing ...

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.

~ Victor Hugo ~

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