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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASI have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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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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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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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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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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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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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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