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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 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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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
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D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee! -D'Artagnan
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Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
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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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Your life story is a novel and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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Upon my word, said Dantes, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.
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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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