As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIn business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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 merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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