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
ALEXANDRE DUMASTo 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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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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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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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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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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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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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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Wait and hope!
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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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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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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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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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