Popular Quotes by Alexandre Dumas

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• To save a man and thereby to spare a fathers agony and a mothers feelings is not to do a noble deed it is but an act of humanity.

  Alexandre Dumas#Humanity 69

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• True I have raped history but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

  Alexandre Dumas#Historical fiction 69

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• I am not proud but I am happy and happiness blinds I think more than pride.

  Alexandre Dumas#Pride 66

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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#Condemned 64

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

  Alexandre Dumas#Imbeciles 62

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• Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

  Alexandre Dumas#Adventure 61

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• God who might have directed the assassins dagger so as to end your career in a moment has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect then wretched man and repent. The Count of Monte Cristo

  Alexandre Dumas#Justice 55

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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#Education 55

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• Nothing succeeds like success.

  Alexandre Dumas#Success 54

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• Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

  Alexandre Dumas#Poet 51

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