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Alexandre Dumas

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
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Bored Food Hungry Myself
You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Communication Devil Yourself
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Final Himself Smile Wisdom
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Care Friendship Heard Secret
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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Friendship Ground Heart Lost Ourselves
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Accompany Allow Choke Excessive Expectation Love
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
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Death Hold Life Myself
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Love Passion Selfish
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Known Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Fools Myself Rest
Wait and hope!
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Hope Patience Wait
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
I am a count, not a saint.
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Count Myself Saint
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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Awake Dreams Fortunate Himself Known Sleep

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