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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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 have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
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Wait and hope!
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Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.
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Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- Wait and hope?
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains he who sees others die loses.
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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
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A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
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I am hungry, feed me I am bored, amuse me.
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In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. [...] He believes in you.
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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