So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
ALEXANDRE DUMASBusiness? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Order is the key to all problems.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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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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