How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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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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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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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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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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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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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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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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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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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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