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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas

Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
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
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
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Fools Myself Rest
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
God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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God Himself Life Man Order Save
Wait and hope!
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Hope Patience Wait
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Defeat Myself Strong Woman
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
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Acceptance Believe Impossible Life Willing
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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Battle Creation Destroy Himself Learning Man Perfection
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Blossom Fruit Ripe Slow Watch Youth
When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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Heart Himself Man Resolution
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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Man Promise Rare Threat Woman
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
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

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