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 DUMASAh, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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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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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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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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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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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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