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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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Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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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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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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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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You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
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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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...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.
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I am not proud, but I am happy and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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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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that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me
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...remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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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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