Professor Hugo Strange

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“What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)