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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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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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We are always in a hurry to be happy... for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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I am hungry, feed me I am bored, amuse me.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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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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We are never quits with those who oblige us, was Dantes' reply for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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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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Business? It's quite simple it's other people's money.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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