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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

Alexandre Dumas

In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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Attack Country Defend Fear Heart Liberty Man Place
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Defeat Myself Strong Woman
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Goodness Happiness Sadness Time
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Death Hold Life Myself
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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Believe Final God Himself Lesson Revenge Sentence
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Fools Learning Oneself
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Business Friendship Oneself
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Division Fall Togetherness Unity
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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Awkward Custom Fashion Future Law
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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Beginning Deliver Exhausted God
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Different Heart Lips Oneself Thinking
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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Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Friendship Life Man Moments Storm Young Yourself
I am a count, not a saint.
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Count Myself Saint
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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Battle Creation Destroy Himself Learning Man Perfection
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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Knowledge Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy Understanding
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Bored Food Hungry Myself
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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Father God Himself Judgement Mercy Religion
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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Death Lose Love Strength Strong
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Care Friendship Heard Secret
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Crime Discover Finding Wish Yourself
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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Difficult Person Position
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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Heart Kind Myself
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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Forever Life Remember Storm Willing

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

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