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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.

Alexandre Dumas

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Children Education Intelligence Man Stupidity
We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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Gratitude Money Obligation Quit
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Difficult Escape Moments Planning Pleasure
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Blind Happiness Myself Pride Proud Thinking
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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Fortune Generosity Hate Limitation True
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
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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Body Forever Forget Remember See Sight Soul Way
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
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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Conflict Life Passion Place Social Storm
Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Drama Life Myself Reality
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
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
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Bliss Capability Despair Man Ultimate
You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Communication Devil Yourself
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Comparison Dreams Forever Imagination Life Oneself Reality Sorrow
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
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Experience Feeling Grief Happiness Himself
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Goodness Happiness Sadness Time
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
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Date Difference Patriotism
You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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Devotion Expectation Money Power Prompt
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
I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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Came Condition Fight Myself
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Death Hold Life Myself
The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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Belief Faith God Himself Hope Misery
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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Book Myself Paper Sword

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