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As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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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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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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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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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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We are always in a hurry to be happy... for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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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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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.
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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 are misfortunes in life that no one will accept people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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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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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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