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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

Alexandre Dumas

There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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Blow Heaven People Resignation Struggle Suffering Tears Willing
So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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Afraid Alcohol Bad Fear Heart Thinking Worst
I am a count, not a saint.
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Count Myself Saint
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Bored Food Hungry Myself
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Diet Drunk Lover Protection
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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Beside Happiness Pass Recognition
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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Doubt Enemy Man Person Rank
When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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Heart Himself Man Resolution
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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Life Live Love Novel People Story
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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Laughter Myself Please Privilege
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Beautiful History Offspring Rape
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Carry Chain heavy Need
Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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Betrayal Fake Remember Revenge
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Evil Remedy Silence Time
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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Man Promise Rare Threat Woman

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

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