I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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