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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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Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
Alexandre Dumas
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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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To learn is not to know there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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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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Haste is a poor counselor
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Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- Wait and hope?
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It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
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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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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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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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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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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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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?
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