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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

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Alexandre Dumas's Popular Quotes

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

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I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.

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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompan…

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One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second phi…

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