God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWithout 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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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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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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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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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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Order is the key to all problems.
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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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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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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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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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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