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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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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
Alexandre Dumas
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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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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......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
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Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
Alexandre Dumas
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.
Alexandre Dumas
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 was like the eve of a battle the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Philosophy cannot be taught it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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I am not proud, but I am happy and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
Alexandre Dumas
We are never quits with those who oblige us, was Dantes' reply for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
Alexandre Dumas
...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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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
Alexandre Dumas
Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
Alexandre Dumas
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
Alexandre Dumas
He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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