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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASEveryone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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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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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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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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