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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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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
Author
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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Alexandre Dumas pere
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father
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père
Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
Alexandre Dumas
the Elder
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Quitting
Gratitude
Money
Never
Quits
Oblige

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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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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
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