“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”

— Victor Hugo · Wisdom quote

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. — Victor Hugo quote card
Writer · 1802 – 1885

French poet and novelist, author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

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