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He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?
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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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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
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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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