Misfortune does not help us to believe.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt 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.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Wait and hope!
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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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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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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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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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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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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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