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Varianta: 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.
Zdroj: The Three Musketeers

“God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.”

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Alexandre Dumas kniha Hrabě Monte-Christo

Varianta: God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
Zdroj: The Count of Monte Cristo

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

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Zdroj: CliffsNotes on Dumas's The Three Musketeers

“We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it.”

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Varianta: Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
Zdroj: The Count of Monte Cristo

“No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo”

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“I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.”

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Zdroj: The Three Musketeers

“In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.”

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Zdroj: The Three Musketeers

“Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.”

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Zdroj: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.”

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Zdroj: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.”

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Zdroj: The Three Musketeers

“Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.”

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Zdroj: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Patience is not my dominant virtue.”

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D'Artagnan

“Man does not steal, he conquers”

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“Sleeping on a plank has one advantage — it encourages early rising.”

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Adventures in Czarist Russia.

“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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Athos, Ch. 48: A Family Affair.
The Three Musketeers (1844)

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

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Zdroj: The Three Musketeers (1844), Ch. 63: The Drop of Water.

“Eh! sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her.”

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Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus (The Vicomte de Bragelonne) (1847)

“There is a woman in every case; as soon as they bring me a report, I say, 'Look for the woman.”

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Alexandre Dumas kniha Los mohicanos de París

Il y a une femme dans toutes les affaires; aussitôt qu'on me fait un rapport, je dis: «Cherchez la femme!»
[Dumas, Alexandre, Alexandre Dumas, père, Théâtre complet, http://www.archive.org/details/thtrecomplet24dumauoft, 2009-08-07, XXIV, 1889, Michel Lévy frères, éditeurs, Paris, French, 103], translation from The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations II.iii
See wikipedia cherchez la femme on how this phrase has come to be used.
Compare Juvenal satire VI.243 (circa 100 AD), "never yet was there a lawsuit which did not have a woman at the bottom of it" (translation by G. G. Ramsay), but in that case describing the litigiousness of Roman women.
Les Mohicans de Paris (The Mohicans of Paris) (1864 play)

“How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.'”

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Alexandre Dumas kniha Hrabě Monte-Christo

Chapter 11 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_11. The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)

“There is … a clever maxim which bears upon what I was saying to you some little while ago, and that is, that unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right] and wholesome state, revolts at [[crime. Still, from an artificial civilisation have originated wants, vices, and false tastes, which occasionally become so powerful as to stifle within us all good feelings, and ultimately to lead us into guilt and wickedness…”

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Chapter 17 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_17 The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)

“My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar.”

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Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus (The Vicomte de Bragelonne) (1847)

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

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Zdroj: The Three Musketeers (1844), Ch. 67: Conclusion.

“We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.”

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Chapter 2 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_2 The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)

“The chains of wedlock are so heavy that it takes two to carry them; sometimes three.”

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Les chaînes du mariage sont si lourdes qu'il faut être deux pour les porter; quelquefois trois. Attributed to Dumas in: Elizabeth Abbott, Une histoire des maîtresses http://books.google.gr/books?id=fEsPUICzDY4C&dq=, Les Éditions Fides, 2004, p. 16. Attributed

“Nothing succeeds like success.”

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Alexandre Dumas kniha Ange Pitou

Rien ne réussit comme le succès. Ange Pitou, Vol. 1 chapter 7 http://www.dumaspere.com/pages/biblio/chapitre.php?lid=r3&cid=7 (1854).

“Private misfortunes must never induce us to neglect public affairs.”

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Alexandre Dumas kniha Hrabě Monte-Christo

chapter 5 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_5 The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)