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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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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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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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