Haste is a poor counselor.
ALEXANDRE DUMASOften we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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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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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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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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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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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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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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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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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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