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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

Alexandre Dumas

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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Fortune Generosity Hate Limitation True
The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Date Difference Patriotism
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Dragon Fight Guard Happiness Order Palace
Order is the key to all problems.
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Key One Liner Order Problem
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.
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Believe Difficult Fortune Goodness Happiness Hurry Suffering
Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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Believe God Himself Yourself
I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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Nice Sarcasm Savage Yourself
Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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Alone Angel Equality God Life Prayer Watch
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
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 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
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Art Evil Pain Yourself
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Fools Learning Oneself
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

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

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