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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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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. [...] He believes in you.
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You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
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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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Wait and hope!
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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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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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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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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Business? It's quite simple it's other people's money.
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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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I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
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It was like the eve of a battle the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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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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We are never quits with those who oblige us, was Dantes' reply for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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To learn is not to know there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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