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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. (Alexandre Dumas)
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. View quote
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Pain, thou art not an evil. View quote
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Joy 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge. View quote
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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. View quote
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What I've loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You've broken it with a word, so I must die. View quote
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Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight. View quote
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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. View quote
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D'Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he'll be his usual charming self by morning. (Alexandre Dumas)
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy. View quote
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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! View quote
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In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs. View quote
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Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself". View quote
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We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. View quote
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Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope. View quote
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... The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground... they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us... View quote
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Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts. View quote
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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. View quote
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Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life! (Alexandre Dumas)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness. View quote
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Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others. View quote
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