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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
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Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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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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Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.
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You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
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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 do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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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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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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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Pain, thou art not an evil
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Order is the key to all problems.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
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