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the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, 'Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?' I replied, 'Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
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Upon my word,' said Dantes, 'you make me tremble. If I listen much longer to you, I shall believe the world is filled with tigers and crocodiles.' 'Remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than those that walk on four.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms
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I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.
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mankind
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I am selfish -- you have already said so-- and as a selfish man I think not of what others would do in my situation, but of what I intend doing myself. Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (Kindle Locations 11677-11678).
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He who has a partner has a master.
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partnership
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in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
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I have lost my friends," D'Artagnan said ruefully, burying his head in his hands. "I have nothing left but the bitterest of recollections..." Two large tears rolled down his cheeks. "You are young," Athos answered. "Your bitter recollections have the time requisite to change into the happiest of memories."
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One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
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joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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I maintain my pride in the face of men, but I abandon it before God, who drew me out of nothingness to make me what I am.
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It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.
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Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he who saved your father's life when he wished to destroy himself, as you do today-because I am the man who sent the purse to your young sister, and the Paraon to Old Morrel-because I am the Edmond Dantes who nursed you, a child, on my knees.
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It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.
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For all evils there are two remedies--time and silence.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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I regret having helped you clarify your past and having told you what I did.' 'Why?' 'Because I've instilled in your heart a feeling that wasn't there before: vengeance.
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Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!
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humanity
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selfishness
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He pointed out to him the bearings of the coast, explained to him the variations of the compass, and taught him to read in that vast book opened over our heads which they call heaven, and where God writes in azure with letters of diamonds.
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seafaring-souls
navigation
wanderlust
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The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. 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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Na tozi sviat niama nito shchastie, nito neshchastie, ima samo sravniavane mezhdu edno s'stoianie i drugo. Nishcho poveche. Samo koito e izpital bezgranichna zlochestina, mozhe da izpita bezgranichno shchastie. Chovek triabva da e pozhelal da umre, za da razbere kolko khubav e zhivot't.
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Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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fate
life
fortune
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; it needs trouble and difficulty and danger to hollow out various mysterious and hidden mines of human intelligence. Pressure is required, you know, to ignite powder: captivity has collected into one single focus all the floating faculties of my mind; they have come into close contact in the narrow space in which they have been wedged. You ..
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It's easy to be friends with when shares the same opinions.
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Good fortune is the best of all mistresses.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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Here is Christianity with its marvellous parable of the Prodigal Son to teach us indulgence and pardon. Jesus was full of love for souls wounded by the passions of men; he loved to bind up their wounds and to find in those very wounds the balm which should heal them. Thus he said to the Magdalen: "Much shall be forgiven thee because thou hast loved much," a sublimity of pardon which can only have called forth a sublime faith. Why do we make..
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My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barreled shotguns. Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him - we bring him back to Rome , and present him to him holiness the Pope, who asks how he can repay so great a service; Then we merely ask for a cariage and a pair of horses, and we will see the Carnival in the carriage , and doubtles..
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funny
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y llh m 'Grb 'slyb lqlb, wm '`jb l'`dhr lt~ yltmsh llwSwl l~ rGbth.
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It is a bad habit to shout it from the rooftops when one challenges a person. Not everyone benefits from attracting attention.
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Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.
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pain
suffering
persistence
strength
life
endurance
challenges
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Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? -- do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?"
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His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!
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Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
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I, who have also been betrayed, assassinated and cast into a tomb, I have emerged from that tomb by the grace of God and I owe it to God to take my revenge. He has sent me for that purpose. Here I am.
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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange --
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I possessed nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with a hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses a complete analysis of all human knowledge, or at least all that is either useful or desirable to be acquainted with. - Abbe Faria
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Il y a une femme dans toutes les affaires; aussitot qu'on me fait un rapport, je dis: 'Cherchez la femme'.
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Punctuality is the politness of kings" p.154"
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