...M. Danglars, who had listened to...

...M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without understanding a word, engaged as he was, like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, in seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.

- Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

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You are young," replied Athos, "and your bitter memories have time to change into sweet ones.

- Alexandre Dumas

What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?""Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

- Alexandre Dumas

Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction. The life of a man was to him of far less value than a numeral, especially when, by taking it away, he could increase the sum total of his own desires. He went to bed at his usual hour, and slept in peace.

- Alexandre Dumas

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.

- Alexandre Dumas

Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.

- Alexandre Dumas

The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.

- Alexandre Dumas

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