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 DUMASSo 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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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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Wait and hope!
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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