If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTo learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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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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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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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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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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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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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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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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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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