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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

In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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Future God King Man Present Woman World
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Dreams Imagination Ourselves Wings
When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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Heart Himself Man Resolution
I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Laughter Myself Please Privilege
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Blossom Fruit Ripe Slow Watch Youth
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
True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Better Inspirational Love Man Woman
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Date Difference Patriotism
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Dragon Fight Guard Happiness Order Palace
We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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Finding Humble Oneself Pure Soothing Sound
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Death One Liner Return
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water

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