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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Alexandre Dumas

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Love Passion Selfish
Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Business Money People Quite Simplicity
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Diet Drunk Lover Protection
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.
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Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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God Himself Kill Life Live Man
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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Attack Country Defend Fear Heart Liberty Man Place
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Goodness Happiness Sadness Time
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Blind Happiness Myself Pride Proud Thinking
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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Body Forever Forget Remember See Sight Soul Way
Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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Conflict Life Passion Place Social Storm
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Different Heart Lips Oneself Thinking
All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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Device Oneself
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Dreams Imagination Ourselves Wings
And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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Farewell Kindness Place Punish Revenge Reward Substitute
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Crime Discover Finding Wish Yourself

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

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