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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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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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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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It was like the eve of a battle the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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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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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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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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In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
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......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
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