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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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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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God is always the last resource.
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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 rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
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Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.
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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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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy
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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy... for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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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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I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.
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What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.
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We are never quits with those who oblige us, was Dantes' reply for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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