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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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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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...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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Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.
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In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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Upon my word, said Dantes, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.
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......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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I am not proud, but I am happy and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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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.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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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 —
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Business? It's quite simple it's other people's money.
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One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
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