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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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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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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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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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Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs]
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.
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God is always the last resource.
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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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...remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy... for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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