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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

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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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...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
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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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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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