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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
Alexandre Dumas
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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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that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me
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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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Upon my word, said Dantes, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.
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...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
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