French - Dramatist | July 24, 1802 - December 5, 1870
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
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I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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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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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
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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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