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Bread
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In Paris today, millions of pounds of bread are sold daily, made during the previous night by those strange, half-naked beings one glimpses through cellar windows, whose wild-seeming cries floating out of those depths always makes a painful impression. In the morning, one sees these pale men, still white with flour, carrying a loaf under one arm, going off to rest and gather new strength to renew their hard and useful labor when night comes again. I have always highly esteemed the brave and humble workers who labor all night to produce those soft but crusty loaves that look more like cake than bread.
-Alexander Dumas
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Business
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Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.
-Alexander Dumas
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Danger
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I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.
-Alexander Dumas, Ten Years Later
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Effort
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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.
-Alexander Dumas
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Failure
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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 agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
-Alexander Dumas
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Happiness
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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.
-Alexander Dumas
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Pleasure
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
-Alexander Dumas
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Relatives
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The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three.
-Alexander Dumas
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Unity
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
-Alexander Dumas
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Wisdom
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All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
-Alexander Dumas
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Books by and about Alexander Dumas