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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASYet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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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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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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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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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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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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