I 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWhat a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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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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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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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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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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