Victor Hugo: They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet.

They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on di — Victor Hugo

They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet.

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