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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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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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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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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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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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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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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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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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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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A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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