Alexandre Dumas
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope."
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"All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope."
Alexandre Dumas
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself."
Alexandre Dumas
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope."
Alexandre Dumas
"So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it and sometimes three."
Alexandre Dumas
"Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money."
Alexandre Dumas
"I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy."
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope."
Alexandre Dumas
"I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done."
Alexandre Dumas
"I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done."
Alexandre Dumas
"Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated."
Alexandre Dumas
"True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring."
Alexandre Dumas
"Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection."
Alexandre Dumas
"I cannot think that man is meant to find happiness so easily! Happiness is like one of those palaces on an enchanted island, its gates guarded by dragons. One must fight to gain it; and, in truth, I do not know what I have done to deserve the good fortune of becoming Mercédès, husband."
Alexandre Dumas
"Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , than that of a bark floating isolated on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity and under the eye of Heaven? Now this solitude was peopled with this thoughts, the night lighted by his illusions, and the silence animated by his anticipations."
Alexandre Dumas
"As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it."
Alexandre Dumas
"For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully through the whole scale of tones, from mortal speech, upwards to the language of heaven."
Alexandre Dumas
"Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities."
Alexandre Dumas
"This sometimes happened: from time to time, Dantès, driven out of solitude into the world, felt an imperative need for solitude. And what solitude is more vast and more poetic than that of a ship sailing alone on the sea, in the darkness of night and the silence of infinity, under the eye of the Lord?"
Alexandre Dumas
"MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY!"
Alexandre Dumas
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