Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt 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.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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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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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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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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God is always the last resource.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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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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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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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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Wait and hope!
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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