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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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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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...remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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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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To learn is not to know there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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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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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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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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......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
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Pain, thou art not an evil
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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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It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
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(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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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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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Your life story is a novel and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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