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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Villers-Cotterets
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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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I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?
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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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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 one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
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His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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