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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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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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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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Business? It's quite simple it's other people's money.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
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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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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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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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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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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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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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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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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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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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