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Alexandre Dumas

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Blossom Fruit Ripe Slow Watch Youth
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
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
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Death Hold Life Myself
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
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Business Friendship Oneself
Haste is a poor counselor.
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Counseling Haste Poor
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
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
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Believe Deep Misery Misfortune
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Love Passion Selfish
Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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Friendship Known Man Time Wait
The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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Friendship Ground Heart Lost Ourselves
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
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Dreams Imagination Ourselves Wings
Without 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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Character Count Death Life Moments Reality Reflection Visage

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