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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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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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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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I am not proud, but I am happy and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.
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Upon my word, said Dantes, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.
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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet she did not please, she intoxicated.
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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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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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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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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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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you he is first a father, then a judge.
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Fool that I am, said he,that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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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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