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 DUMASHow did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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God is always the last resource.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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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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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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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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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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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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