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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character, said the count on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.
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Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- Wait and hope?
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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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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Haste is a poor counselor
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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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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(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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