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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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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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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
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Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you he is first a father, then a judge.
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Upon my word, said Dantes, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.
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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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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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that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me
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I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
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You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
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