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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas

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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Friendship Known Man Time Wait
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Different Heart Lips Oneself Thinking
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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Believe Difficult Fortune Goodness Happiness Hurry Suffering
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
Order is the key to all problems.
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Key One Liner Order Problem
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Bliss Capability Despair Man Ultimate
You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Communication Devil Yourself
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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Battle Goodness Heart Beat Laughter Lose
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Business Live Man Ourselves Risk
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Fools Myself Rest
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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Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Diet Drunk Lover Protection
God is always the last resource.
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God One Liner Resource
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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Difficult Person Position
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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Battle Creation Destroy Himself Learning Man Perfection
Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Drama Life Myself Reality

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

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