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I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.
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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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It was like the eve of a battle the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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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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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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Pain, thou art not an evil
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God is always the last resource.
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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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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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One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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