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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Alexandre Dumas

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
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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Act Agony Father Humanity Man Save Spare
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Bliss Capability Despair Man Ultimate
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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Laughter Myself Please Privilege
True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Better Inspirational Love Man Woman
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
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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Beside Happiness Pass Recognition
It is only the dead who do not return.
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Death One Liner Return
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Evil Remedy Silence Time
The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Acceptance Believe Impossible Life Willing
A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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Black Cloud Horizon Mindset See Sky Weakness Yourself
Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Business Money People Quite Simplicity
Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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Betrayal Fake Remember Revenge
In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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Feeling Ideas Kill Known Man Obstacle Politics Removal

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