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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

Alexandre Dumas

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Goodness Happiness Sadness Time
Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Bitter Memories Oneself Sweet Time
Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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Forever Life Remember Storm Willing
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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Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Love Passion Selfish
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
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
Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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Blood Heart Hide Moral Painful Wound
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Friendship Life Man Moments Storm Young Yourself
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
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Bored Food Hungry Myself
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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Beginning Deliver Exhausted God
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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God Himself Kill Life Live Man
God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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Father God Himself Judgement Mercy Religion
One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Education Finish Oneself Work
All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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Device Oneself

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

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