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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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Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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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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One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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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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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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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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It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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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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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
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I am hungry, feed me I am bored, amuse me.
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