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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
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Wait and hope!
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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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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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Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character, said the count on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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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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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you he is first a father, then a judge.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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I am not proud, but I am happy and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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I am hungry, feed me I am bored, amuse me.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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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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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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