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To learn is not to know there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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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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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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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever.
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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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......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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Philosophy cannot be taught it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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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 have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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It was like the eve of a battle the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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