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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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Novelist
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Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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père
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Alexandre Dumas
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Philosophy
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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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Order is the key to all problems.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet she did not please, she intoxicated.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever.
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs]
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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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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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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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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