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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

Alexandre Dumas

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Fools Learning Oneself
You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Communication Devil Yourself
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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Attack Country Defend Fear Heart Liberty Man Place
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Crime Discover Finding Wish Yourself
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Charming Doubt Yourself
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Different Heart Lips Oneself Thinking
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Difficult Lying Value
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Children Education Intelligence Man Stupidity
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Comparison Dreams Forever Imagination Life Oneself Reality Sorrow
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.
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Advice Blame General Order People Rule
Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Drama Life Myself Reality
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Accompany Allow Choke Excessive Expectation Love
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
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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Battle Goodness Heart Beat Laughter Lose
God is always the last resource.
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God One Liner Resource

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

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