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"Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go."

"If the world leaders can afford a 7 hours sleep, most of us probably can too."

"Weekends are life's gift to those who hate their jobs."
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"The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all."

"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."

"Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.''The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse."

"My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barreled shotguns. Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him - we bring him back to Rome , and present him to him holiness the Pope, who asks how he can repay so great a service; Then we merely ask for a cariage and a pair of horses, and we will see the Carnival in the carriage , and doubtless the Roman people will crown us at the capitol , and proclaim us, like Curtius and the veiled Horatius, the preservers of there country." Whilst Albert proposed this scheme, signor Pastrini's face assumed an expression impossible to describe."

"Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love, they never allow you to wound their self-esteem."

"She is not my mistress,' replied the young sailor gravely, 'she is my betrothed.''Sometimes one and the same thing,' said Morrel, with a smile.'Not with us, sir,' replied Dantes."

"However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations."

"Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds."
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