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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Difficult Lying Value
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
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
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
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
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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Father God Himself Judgement Mercy Religion
Wait and hope!
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Hope Patience Wait
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Date Difference Patriotism
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
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Goodness Happiness Sadness Time
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Friendship Life Man Moments Storm Young Yourself
Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Drama Life Myself Reality
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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Knowledge Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy Understanding
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Business Live Man Ourselves Risk
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time

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