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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

Alexandre Dumas

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
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
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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Blessing Goodness Gratitude Happiness Heart Myself
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Business Friendship Oneself
It is only the dead who do not return.
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Death One Liner Return
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Different Heart Lips Oneself Thinking
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Division Fall Togetherness Unity
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Believe Deep Misery Misfortune
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
As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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Advice Blame General Order People Rule
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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Devotion Expectation Money Power Prompt
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
Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Bitter Memories Oneself Sweet Time
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
So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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Afraid Alcohol Bad Fear Heart Thinking Worst

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

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