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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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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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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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One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
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But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues? Maximilien asked. Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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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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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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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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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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