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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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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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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. [...] He believes in you.
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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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Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
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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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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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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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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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Business? It's quite simple it's other people's money.
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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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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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God is always the last resource.
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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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Wait and hope!
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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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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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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