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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.
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Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. In general, people only ask for advice, he said that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
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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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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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You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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