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Source/Notes: Villemain (1845)
Source/Notes: Les Misérables (1862), Volume Four: ST. DENIS, Book VIII - Enchantments and Desolations

Source/Notes: Variant translation: "He felt even that a creditor is worse than a master; for a master owns only your person, a creditor owns your dignity and can belabor that." - Les Misérables (1862), Volume 3: Marius, Chapter 2: Marius Poor
Source/Notes: Victor Hugo's intellectual autobiography: (Postscriptum de ma vie); being the last of the unpublished works and embodying the author's ideas on literature, philosophy and religion (1971 edition)
Source/Notes: Selected Poems from the Edition Definitive (1897 edition)

Source/Notes: Les misérables (1863 edition)
Source/Notes: In French: "Les bras des mères sont faits de tendresse; les enfants y dorment profondément" - Les Misérables (1862), Vol.1: Fantine
