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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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Alexandre Dumas
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
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