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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.

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

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  13. Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives. – Alexandre Dumas
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  24. Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy. – Alexandre Dumas
  25. Sometimes salvation is found in agony. – Alexandre Dumas
  26. Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire. – Alexandre Dumas
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