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“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“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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