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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.

Alexandre Dumas

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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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I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?
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I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
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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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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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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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Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. [...] He believes in you.
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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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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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It was like the eve of a battle the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
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Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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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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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.
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