Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTime, 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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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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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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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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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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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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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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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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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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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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