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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? (Alexandre Dumas)
...... When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned. View quote
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Sleeping on a plank has one advantage - it encourages early rising. View quote
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Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin. View quote
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Weep," said Athos, "weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you! View quote
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Eh! sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her. View quote
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There is a woman in every case; as soon as they bring me a report, I say, 'Look for the woman'. View quote
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My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar. View quote
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You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances. View quote
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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. View quote
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Look for the woman! (Alexandre Dumas)
It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. View quote
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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 failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. View quote
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* My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends. View quote
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Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God. When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything. View quote
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See wikipedia cherchez la femme on how this phrase has come to be used. View quote
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I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of the evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil. Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America? Is this the life you long to change into the dull red hideousness of Georgia? Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land? View quote
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