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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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Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains he who sees others die loses.
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I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.
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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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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Wait and hope!
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Your life story is a novel and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character, said the count on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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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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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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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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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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In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
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