We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWoman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Happiness is egotistical.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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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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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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I am a count, not a saint.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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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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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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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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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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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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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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