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A quotation from Hugo

Strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other’s qualities.
 
[Et puis, chose bizarre, le premier symptôme de l’amour vrai chez un jeune homme, c’est la timidité, chez une jeune fille, c’est la hardiesse. Ceci étonne, et rien n’est plus simple pourtant. Ce sont les deux sexes qui tendent à se rapprocher et qui prennent les qualités l’un de l’autre.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 3 “The House in the Rue Plumet,” ch. 6 (4.3.6) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/75527/

Bugger sense, bugger voters, buggering all of us - Labour in full flow just in case they losde even more voters to Reform.

Face it #Labour, this is your last time in power under FPTP. Use your majority, reform it, reform party funding and fix our ties to Europe - at least a little bit. You will not get another chance, manipulating the FPTP system to selectively campaign and get an underserved majority is no way to live..

theguardian.com/politics/2025/

The Guardian · UK seeks smoother trade with EU but customs union is ‘red line’, Cooper saysBy Rowena Mason