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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!

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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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father
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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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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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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It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.
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