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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

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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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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- Wait and hope?
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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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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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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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