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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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  Atheist, Live Life, Men

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• I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

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  Ink, Bottles, Paper

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count of Monte Cristo: World Classics”, p.35, World Classic

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• I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

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  Fear, Fear Of Death, Musketeers

  Alexandre Dumas (1991). “The Three Musketeers”, p.599, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Happiness is egotistical.

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  Egotistical

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Three Musketeers: World Classics”, p.398, World Classic

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• To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

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  Memories, Philosophy, Monte Cristo

  Alexandre Dumas (1997). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.118, Wordsworth Editions

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• Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

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  Strength, Being Strong, Strong Women

  Alexandre Dumas (1912*). “Marguerite de Valois”

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• True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

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  Beautiful, Offspring

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• He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

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  Happiness, Grief, Sadness

  Alexandre Dumas (2015). “Count of Monte Cristo: {Complete & Illustrated}”, p.1620, eKitap Projesi

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• Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.

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  Believe, Matter, Believe In God

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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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  Motivational, Jobs, Class

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• I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.

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  Hate, Independent, Artist

  Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3990, Delphi Classics

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• D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.

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  Morning, Drinking, Self

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• Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

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  Men, Generous Man, Hatred

  Alexandre Dumas (1981). “The Count of Monte Cristo”

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• Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

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  Selfish, Passion, Love Is

  Alexandre Dumas (1878). “The Three Musketeers”, p.83, ebookfreedom

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• We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time

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  Humble, Air, Sea

  Alexandre Dumas (1981). “The Count of Monte Cristo”

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• Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

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  Gratitude, Blessed, Grateful

  Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3310, Delphi Classics

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• In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

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  Business, No Friends

  "The Count of Monte Cristo".

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• Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

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  Business, Simple, People

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• Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.

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  Believe, Worry, Gentleman

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• Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

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  Time, Unhappy, Nostalgia

  Alexandre Dumas (1904). “Chevalier d'Harmental”

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• 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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  Men, Ideas, Feelings

  Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3140, Delphi Classics

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• It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising

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  Clouds, Sky, Soul

  Alexandre Dumas (2010). “The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 6âle Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome 6: English-French Parallel Text Edition in Six Volumes”, p.264, Lulu.com

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• Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

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  Men, Risk, Musketeers

  Alexandre Dumas (1991). “The Three Musketeers”, p.397, Oxford University Press, USA

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• God is always the last resource.

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  Lasts, Resources

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count Of Monte Cristo (Illustrated Edition of the Adventure Classic): Historical Thriller from the renowned French writer, known for The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, La Reine Margot and The Man in the Iron Mask”, p.157, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

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  Mother, Father, Men

  Alexandre Dumas (2012). “The Count of Monte Cristo: Abridged Edition”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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