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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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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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That is a dream also only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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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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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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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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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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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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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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In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
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Wait and hope!
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One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
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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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