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

Alexandre Dumas

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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Beside Happiness Pass Recognition
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Dragon Fight Guard Happiness Order Palace
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Love Passion Selfish
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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Act Agony Father Humanity Man Save Spare
The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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Friendship Ground Heart Lost Ourselves
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
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
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Effect Oppression Sorrow Strange Time
God is always the last resource.
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God One Liner Resource
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Fools Myself Rest
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Believe Deep Misery Misfortune
I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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Nice Sarcasm Savage Yourself
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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Awake Dreams Fortunate Himself Known Sleep
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Care Friendship Heard Secret
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

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

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