Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers (1844)

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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting deity.

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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

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When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.

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All for one, one for all, that is our motto.

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All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

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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.

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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

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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.

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I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.

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You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.

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He whose game is the eagle takes no heed of the sparrow.

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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.

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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

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D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan

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"Weep," said Athos, "weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!"

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Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.

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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

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Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam—even if I have to overturn the world.

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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.

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