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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.

Alexandre Dumas

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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Friendship Life Man Moments Storm Young Yourself
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Comparison Grief Happiness Misery Oneself State World
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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God Himself Kill Life Live Man
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Diet Drunk Lover Protection
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Business Friendship Oneself
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Adventure Fear Myself Seek
To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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Act Agony Father Humanity Man Save Spare
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Dreams Imagination Ourselves Wings
The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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Blood Heart Hide Moral Painful Wound
We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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Gratitude Money Obligation Quit
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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Man Promise Rare Threat Woman
Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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Betrayal Fake Remember Revenge
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Evil Remedy Silence Time
Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Art Evil Pain Yourself
Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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Forever Life Remember Storm Willing
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Date Difference Patriotism
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Defeat Myself Strong Woman
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Bored Food Hungry Myself
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Division Fall Togetherness Unity
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Business Live Man Ourselves Risk
And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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Farewell Kindness Place Punish Revenge Reward Substitute
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Carry Chain heavy Need
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
I am a count, not a saint.
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Count Myself Saint
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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Blow Heaven People Resignation Struggle Suffering Tears Willing

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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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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