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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

Alexandre Dumas

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
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Charming Doubt Yourself
Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Drama Life Myself Reality
And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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Farewell Kindness Place Punish Revenge Reward Substitute
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
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
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Accompany Allow Choke Excessive Expectation Love
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Goodness Happiness Sadness Time
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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Beside Happiness Pass Recognition
Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Bitter Memories Oneself Sweet Time
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Choice Head Heart Ideas
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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Blow Heaven People Resignation Struggle Suffering Tears Willing
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
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Fools Learning Oneself
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
True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Better Inspirational Love Man Woman

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

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