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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!

Alexandre Dumas

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Book Myself Paper Sword
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
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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Comparison Grief Happiness Misery Oneself State World
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Accompany Allow Choke Excessive Expectation Love
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Business Friendship Oneself
God is always the last resource.
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God One Liner Resource
In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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Future God King Man Present Woman World
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Business Live Man Ourselves Risk
Wait and hope!
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Hope Patience Wait
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Explanation God Happiness Himself Language Man Prayer Talk
He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Mad Man Right Togetherness
And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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Farewell Kindness Place Punish Revenge Reward Substitute
Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Business Money People Quite Simplicity
I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Nice Sarcasm Savage Yourself
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 DUMAS

Came Condition Fight Myself
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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Battle Goodness Heart Beat Laughter Lose

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!

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