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the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.
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wisdom
perspective
mistakes
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Dantes had entered the Chateau d'If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the early paths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corresponding with his past. This was now all changed. The oval face was lengthened, his smiling mouth had assumed the firm and marked lines which betoken resolution; his eyebrows were arched beneath a brow furrowed with thought; his eyes were full of melancholy, an..
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optimism
maturity
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He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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This will do," said he, "and from this letter, which might have ruined me, I will make my fortune. Now to the work I have in hand." And after having assured himself that the prisoner was gone, the deputy procureur hastened to the house of his betrothed."
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Alexandre Dumas |
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I'm not proud, but I'm happy, and I think happiness makes a man even blinder than pride.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Dorinta prompt indeplinita genereaza pe data o alta.
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Alexandre Dumas-fils |
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Za vsiako zlo ima dva tsiara: vremeto i m'lchanieto
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Priiatelite, koito sme zagubili ne pochivat v zemiata, te sa pogrebani v s'rtsata ni, po bozhiia volia, za da ni pridruzhavat navred. Az imam dvama blizki, koito me pridruzhavat taka: ediniiat e tozi, komuto d'lzha zhivota si, drugiiat - tozi, komuto d'lzha razumnostta si. Dukh't na vseki ot tiakh zhivee v mene. S'vetvam se s tiakh v moment na kolebanie i ako s'm storil niakakvo dobro, to se d'lzhi na tekhnite s'veti.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others...
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view
worldview
perspective
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God almost always opens two ways which lead thither, the ways of sorrow and of love.
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Alexandre Dumas-fils |
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I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things...
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Alexandre Dumas |
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I have always heard it said that that is the rarest service, but the easiest to render. The remark struck me; I like to cite remarks that strike me.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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apprendre n'est pas savoir; il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la memoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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az s'm ot tezi, koito smiatat, che golemite neshcha zapochvat ot malkite. Deteto e malko, no to s'd'rzha choveka, moz'k't e mal'k, no v nego se s'khraniava mis'lta, okoto e samo edna tochka, no obgr'shcha prostranstvata.
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мисълта
мозъкът
окото
пространства
човека
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Que de routes prend et que de raisons se donne le coeur pour en arriver a ce qu'il veut !
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Alexandre Dumas-fils |
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I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope." ~Edmond Dantes"
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Alexandre Dumas |
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I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.
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gentleman
word
honor
morals
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Alexandre Dumas |
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What tender threads do life and death hang
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.
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life
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Man upon this earth must expect everything, and ought to face everything.
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bravery
preparation
honour
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Alexandre Dumas |
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The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.
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pain
humanity
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To be loved by a pure young girl, to be the first to reveal to her the strange mystery of love, is indeed a great happiness, but it is the simplest thing in the world. To take captive a heart which has had no experience of attack, is to enter an unfortified and ungarrisoned city. Education, family feeling, the sense of duty, the family, are strong sentinels, but there are no sentinels so vigilant as not to be deceived by a girl of sixteen t..
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself...
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happy
secret
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Sleeping on a plank has one advantage - it encourages early rising.
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sleeping
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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The heart of the best woman is pitiless toward the sorrows of a rival.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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But excessive grief is like a storm at sea, where the frail bark is tossed from the depths to the top of the wave.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Geceleyin butun kediler gridir.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Peut-etre, dit Athos; mais, en tout cas, ecoutez bien ceci: assassinez ou faites assassiner le duc de Buckingham, peut m'importe! je ne le connais pas, d'ailleurs c'est un Anglais; mais ne touchez pas du bout du doigt a un seul cheveux de d'Artagnan, qui est un fidele ami qu j'aime et que je defends, ou je vous le jure sur la tete de mon pere, le crime que vous aurez commis sera le dernier.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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I do not often laugh, sir," answered the unknown. "As you may yourself discover by the expression of my continence. But yet I mean to preserve the right of laughing when I please."
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Alexandre Dumas |
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And how did this misfortune occur?" inquired the latter, resuming the interrupted conversation."
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Those who are born in a gilt cradle and have never wanted for anything, do not know what happiness life contains, just as they do not appreciate to the full a clear sky who have never entrusted their lives to the mercy of four planks on a raging sea.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Great people only thank you for doing the impossible; what's possible, they say they can effect themselves.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment." "What is it?" "Impossibility."
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Political judgments are generally vain formalities, for the same passions which give rise to the accusation ordain the condemnation. Such is the atrocious logic of revolutions.
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Very well, young man, very well," Treville went on, "I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre."
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treville
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As for herself, she returned to her seat with a smile of savage scorn upon her lips, and she blasphemously repeated the fearful name of that God by whom she had just sworn, without ever having learned to know Him. "My God!" said she. "Fanatical fool! -My God is myself; and whoever will assist in my revenge!"
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Alexandre Dumas |
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The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.
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Alexandre Dumas |
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My opinion is, that all these old podestas, these ancient condottieri, -- for the Cavalcanti have commanded armies and governed provinces, -- my opinion, I say, is, that they have buried their millions in corners, the secret of which they have transmitted only to their eldest sons, who have done the same from generation to generation; and the proof of this is seen in their yellow and dry appearance, like the florins of the republic, which, ..
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Alexandre Dumas |
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Shall we make a positive appointment for a particular day and hour?" inquired the count; "only let me warn you that I am proverbial for my punctilious exactitude in keeping my engagements." --
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Alexandre Dumas |
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God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.
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justice
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Alexandre Dumas |
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what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to give her those thousand nothings.
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