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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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That is a dream also only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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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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Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.
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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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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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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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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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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!
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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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What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.
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