Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThrough the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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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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It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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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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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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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.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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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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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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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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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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