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I am a count, not a saint.

Alexandre Dumas

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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Boredom Courage Desire Hungry Myself Sleep
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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Alone Angel Equality God Life Prayer Watch
One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Education Finish Oneself Work
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Business Live Man Ourselves Risk
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Division Fall Togetherness Unity
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Blossom Fruit Ripe Slow Watch Youth
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Book Myself Paper Sword
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Bored Food Hungry Myself
Be kind. Aim for my heart.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Heart Kind Myself
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Blind Happiness Myself Pride Proud Thinking
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Date Difference Patriotism
It is only the dead who do not return.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Death One Liner Return
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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Battle Goodness Heart Beat Laughter Lose
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Difficult Escape Moments Planning Pleasure
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Betrayal Flower Tree

I am a count, not a saint.

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