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D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee! -D'Artagnan

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Business? It's quite simple it's other people's money.
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...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.
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...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo
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I am not proud, but I am happy and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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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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Haste is a poor counselor
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As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
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His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy
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God is always the last resource.
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you he is first a father, then a judge.
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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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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising
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