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Alexandre Dumas

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The Count of Monte Cristo

From Project Gutenberg e-text #1184 (public domain in the USA).

Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—‘Wait and hope.’

— Spoken by a character · 117. The Fifth of October

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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.

— Spoken by a character · 117. The Fifth of October

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The three musketeers

From Project Gutenberg e-text #1257 (public domain in the USA).

“All for one, one for all.”

— Spoken by a character · IX. D’ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF

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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

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Twenty years after

From Project Gutenberg e-text #1259 (public domain in the USA).

Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D’Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.

— Spoken by a character · XIV. The Castle of Bragelonne

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Now an enemy is never so near and consequently so threatening, as when he has completely disappeared.

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The black tulip

From Project Gutenberg e-text #965 (public domain in the USA).

There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.

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“It was written,” thought poor Cornelius, “that I should not in this world give my name either to a child to a flower, or to a book,--the three things by which a man’s memory is perpetuated.”

— Spoken by a character · 29. In which Van Baerle, before leaving Loewestein, settles Accounts with Gryphus

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