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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 —

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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Order is the key to all problems.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains he who sees others die loses.
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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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I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.
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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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Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet she did not please, she intoxicated.
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