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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.

Alexandre Dumas

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Holy Instagram Captions Love Sacred Woman
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Charming Doubt Yourself
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Goodness Happiness Sadness Time
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
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
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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Awkward Custom Fashion Future Law
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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Conflict Life Passion Place Social Storm
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Blind Happiness Myself Pride Proud Thinking
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Love Passion Selfish
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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Boredom Courage Desire Hungry Myself Sleep
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
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Friendship Life Man Moments Storm Young Yourself
As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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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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Exit Love Suspicious Togetherness
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
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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Difficult Person Position

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