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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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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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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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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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One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.
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Wait and hope!
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...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.
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I am hungry, feed me I am bored, amuse me.
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
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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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You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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Haste is a poor counselor
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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