How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASSo he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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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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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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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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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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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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