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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASEvery 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASRemember that what has once been done may be done again.
ALEXANDRE DUMASAll for one, one for all, that is our device.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
ALEXANDRE DUMASI do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
ALEXANDRE DUMASJoy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
ALEXANDRE DUMASBusiness? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt is only the dead who do not return.
ALEXANDRE DUMASAre 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThere are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
ALEXANDRE DUMASLife 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASJoy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
ALEXANDRE DUMASSo heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
ALEXANDRE DUMASSo rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
ALEXANDRE DUMASBesides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
ALEXANDRE DUMASMastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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