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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.

Alexandre Dumas

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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Doubt Enemy Man Person Rank
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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Bitter Blind Hate Rage Risk Task
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Date Difference Patriotism
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Charming Doubt Yourself
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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Drought Fall Ground Heart Suffering
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Bliss Capability Despair Man Ultimate
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Evil Remedy Silence Time
Order is the key to all problems.
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Key One Liner Order Problem
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Fools Myself Rest
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Adventure Fear Myself Seek
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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Character Count Death Life Moments Reality Reflection Visage
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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Explanation God Happiness Himself Language Man Prayer Talk
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Business Money People Quite Simplicity
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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Book Myself Paper Sword

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