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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you he is first a father, then a judge.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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We are never quits with those who oblige us, was Dantes' reply for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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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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