How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHow did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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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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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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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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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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