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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.
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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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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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(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Philosophy cannot be taught it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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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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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
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