We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.
– Alexandre Dumas
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- We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you. – Alexandre Dumas
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- My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future. – Alexandre Dumas
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- So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination. – Alexandre Dumas
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- Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy. – Alexandre Dumas
- Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire. – Alexandre Dumas
- Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures. – Alexandre Dumas
- Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities. – Alexandre Dumas
- Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more. – Alexandre Dumas fils
- 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
- Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose. – Alexandre Dumas
- The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry. – Alexandre Dumas
- God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers. – Alexandre Dumas
- God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge. – Alexandre Dumas
- …remember that what has once been done may be done again. – Alexandre Dumas
- How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you! – Alexandre Dumas
- these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after – Alexandre Dumas
- Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection. – Alexandre Dumas
- All for one and one for all. – Alexandre Dumas
- All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall. – Alexandre Dumas