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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHe’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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Haste is a poor counselor.
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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.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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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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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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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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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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God is always the last resource.
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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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