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 DUMASTrue love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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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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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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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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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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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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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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