All Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
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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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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas
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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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I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
Alexandre Dumas
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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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
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All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas
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