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Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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There are women who love their husbands so much that, in order not to use them, they take their friends'.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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For every kind of trouble there are two remedies: time and silence.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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Everything fits in the brief. Small is the child and contains the man; narrow is the brain and shelters the thought; the eye is no more than a point and spans leagues.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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The good is slow because it goes uphill. The evil is fast because it goes downhill.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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We believe, above all because it is easier to believe than to doubt, and also because faith is the sister of hope and charity.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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Mothers always forgive: they have come into the world for that.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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A man is born without teeth, without hair, and without illusions. And he dies the same way: without teeth, without hair, and without illusions.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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That happy time when we were so unhappy!

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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Life is so uncertain, that happiness must be seized at the moment it presents itself.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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In politics, my dear, and you know it as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas; no feelings, but interests; in politics, a man is not killed, but an obstacle is removed.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

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Misfortune is also necessary to discover certain mysterious mines hidden in human intelligence.