So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
ALEXANDRE DUMASI 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.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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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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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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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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I 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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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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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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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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