So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
ALEXANDRE DUMASSo much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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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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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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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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