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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASI came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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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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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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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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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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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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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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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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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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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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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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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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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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