What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
ALEXANDRE DUMASIn 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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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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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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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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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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God is always the last resource.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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