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In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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 heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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