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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.

Alexandre Dumas

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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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Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. In general, people only ask for advice, he said that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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I am not proud, but I am happy and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
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To learn is not to know there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.
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He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Hatred is blind rage carries you away and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.
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Fool that I am, said he,that I did not tear out my heart the day 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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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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