There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIn business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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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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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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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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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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