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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASYour life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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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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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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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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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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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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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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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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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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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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