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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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Order is the key to all problems.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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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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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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It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.
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(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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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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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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