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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Villers-Cotterets
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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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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I am a count, not a saint.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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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.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
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...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
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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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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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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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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising
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Philosophy cannot be taught it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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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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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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