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You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

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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
père
Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
Alexandre Dumas
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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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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains he who sees others die loses.
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Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. In general, people only ask for advice, he said that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it.
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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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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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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.
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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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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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In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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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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Business? It's quite simple it's other people's money.
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And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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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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