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...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

Alexandre Dumas

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
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That is a dream also only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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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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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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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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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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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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God is always the last resource.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
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