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Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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I am not proud, but I am happy and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
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The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.
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Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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