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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

Alexandre Dumas

Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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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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Life Live Love Novel People Story
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Love Passion Selfish
The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Believe Deep Misery Misfortune
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Business Friendship Oneself
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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Fortune Generosity Hate Limitation True
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Language Master Oneself Opportunity
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Different Heart Lips Oneself Thinking
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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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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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

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