Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

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"It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times."

Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

"I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word."

Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

"Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it."

Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

"But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that they have often all the real marks of the passion."

Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After