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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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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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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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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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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Philosophy cannot be taught it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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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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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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Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- Wait and hope?
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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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Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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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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It is only the dead who do not return.
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