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Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys.

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Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, for beauty heightened by artlessness is ineffable, ...more

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It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if they should...more