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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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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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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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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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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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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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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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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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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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One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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