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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.

Alexandre Dumas

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Dreams Imagination Ourselves Wings
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Fools Myself Rest
I am a count, not a saint.
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Count Myself Saint
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Believe Deep Misery Misfortune
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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Fortune Generosity Hate Limitation True
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Known Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Charming Doubt Yourself
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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Awake Dreams Fortunate Himself Known Sleep
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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Man Promise Rare Threat Woman
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Business Friendship Oneself
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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Death Lose Love Strength Strong
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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Bitter Blind Hate Rage Risk Task
In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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Feeling Ideas Kill Known Man Obstacle Politics Removal
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
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Final Himself Smile Wisdom
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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Battle Creation Destroy Himself Learning Man Perfection

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