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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
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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That is a dream also only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee! -D'Artagnan
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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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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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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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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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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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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