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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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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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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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