QUOTES by Alexander Dumas
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"Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight."
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"God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge."
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"No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo"
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"I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?"
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"We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it."
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"It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree."
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"......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned."
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"All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face."
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"God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge."
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"We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you."
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"If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful."
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"He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness."
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"Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world."
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"Your 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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"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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"Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen."
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"It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!"
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"Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle."
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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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"Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated."
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"I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest."
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"The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted."
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"But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past."
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"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness."
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"And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?"
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"And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?"
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"Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives."
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"...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all."
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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. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
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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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"For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart."
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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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