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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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Villers-Cotterets
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in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke 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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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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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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Hatred is blind rage carries you away and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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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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That is a dream also only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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Business? It's quite simple it's other people's money.
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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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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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