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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

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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Life Live Love Novel People Story
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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Fools Heart Myself Revenge Tears
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 not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Blind Happiness Myself Pride Proud Thinking
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Division Fall Togetherness Unity
The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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Drought Fall Ground Heart Suffering
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Care Friendship Heard Secret
Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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Blood Heart Hide Moral Painful Wound
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
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Defeat Myself Strong Woman
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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Advice Blame General Order People Rule
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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Knowledge Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy Understanding
Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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Appearance Darkness Illumination Sun Yourself
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Business Live Man Ourselves Risk
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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Explanation God Happiness Himself Language Man Prayer Talk

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