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  • To paraphrase Victor Hugo, there is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come -- again.

    Don Tapscott: We Need World-Wide Corporate Reporting Standards 2010

  • To paraphrase Victor Hugo, dignity is an idea whose time has come.

    Robert Fuller: 10 Ways to Stop Rankism in the Professional World 2010

  • To paraphrase Victor Hugo, dignity is an idea whose time has come.

    Robert Fuller: 10 Ways to Stop Rankism in the Professional World 2010

  • Not so Mme. de Bargeton; she waxed enthusiastic over the renaissance, due to the return of the Bourbon Lilies; she loved M. de Chateaubriand for calling Victor Hugo “a sublime child.”

    Two Poets 2007

  • Not so Mme. de Bargeton; she waxed enthusiastic over the renaissance, due to the return of the Bourbon Lilies; she loved M. de Chateaubriand for calling Victor Hugo “a sublime child.”

    Two Poets 2007

  • He adventurously explored that garden, finding a kitchen-garden that had "somehow got attached" to the premises, and wondering why he liked it; speaking to the gardener, "an enterprise of no little valour," and asking him the name "of a strange dark red rose, at once theatrical and sulky," which turned out to be called Victor Hugo;

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

  • There is something nobly patriarchal about the idea of Victor Hugo in his old age.

    Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917

  • He recalls Victor Hugo, with much less artistic power but more historical sense.

    Amiel's Journal Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel 1885

  • Lilies; she loved M. de Chateaubriand for calling Victor Hugo "a sublime child."

    Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Lilies; she loved M. de Chateaubriand for calling Victor Hugo "a sublime child."

    Two Poets Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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