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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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Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
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Fool that I am, said he,that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself.
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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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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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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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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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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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