I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
ALEXANDRE DUMASI’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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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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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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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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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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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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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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