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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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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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But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues? Maximilien asked. Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.
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D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.
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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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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you he is first a father, then a judge.
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To learn is not to know there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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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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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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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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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?
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