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“It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”

- Alexandre Dumas

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“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”

- Alexandre Dumas

Source/Notes: As quoted in: Forbes (1957), p. 66

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“All for one and one for all.”

- Alexandre Dumas

Source/Notes: The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1998 edition), Oxford University Press - ISBN: 9780192834638

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“All for one, one for all, that is our device.”

- Alexandre Dumas

Source/Notes: Les Trois Mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers) (1844)

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“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”

- Alexandre Dumas

Source/Notes: Attributed. Similar to izquotes.com/quote/187907

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“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.”

- Alexandre Dumas

Source/Notes: Le comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) (1845–1846)

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“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

- Alexandre Dumas

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“He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.”

- Alexandre Dumas

Source/Notes: The three musketeers, tr. by W. Robson (1853 edition)

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“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”

- Alexandre Dumas

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“I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.”

- Alexandre Dumas

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“If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.”

- Alexandre Dumas

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“Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.”

- Alexandre Dumas

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“It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.”

- Alexandre Dumas

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“It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.”

- Alexandre Dumas

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