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

Alexandre Dumas

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Application Philosophy Science Teaching Truth
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Division Fall Togetherness Unity
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 heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Carry Chain heavy Need
Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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Alone Angel Equality God Life Prayer Watch
In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Dangerous Love Point Wasted Time Writing
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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Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
God is always the last resource.
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God One Liner Resource
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
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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Difficult Person Position
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Acceptance Believe Impossible Life Willing
In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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Feeling Ideas Kill Known Man Obstacle Politics Removal
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Fools Learning Oneself
We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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Gratitude Money Obligation Quit
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself

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

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