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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
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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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Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
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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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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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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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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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...remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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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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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms
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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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