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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

Alexandre Dumas

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Choice Head Heart Ideas
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Division Fall Togetherness Unity
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Care Friendship Heard Secret
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Exit Love Suspicious Togetherness
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
It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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Battle Goodness Heart Beat Laughter Lose
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
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Finding Humble Oneself Pure Soothing Sound
Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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Heart Kind Myself
In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Dangerous Love Point Wasted Time Writing
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
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Dreams Imagination Ourselves Wings
God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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God Himself Life Man Order Save
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
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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Blessing Goodness Gratitude Happiness Heart Myself
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
Order is the key to all problems.
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

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