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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
Author
Novelist
Playwright
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Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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father
Alexandre Dumas
père
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the Elder
Everything
Clouds
Darkened
Mind
Forms
Weakened
Way
Sky
Horizons
Minds
Stormy
Future
Consequently
Black
Cloud
Form
Horizon
Soul
Appears
Unpromising

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