The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, and sometimes three.
—Alexandre Dumas fils
Topics: Difficulty
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
—Alexandre Dumas fils
Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master.
—Alexandre Dumas fils
Topics: Money
Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.
—Alexandre Dumas fils
Topics: Memories
We must love, no matter whom, no matter what, no matter how, provided only we do love.
—Alexandre Dumas fils
Men and women go to the theatre only to hear of love, and to take part in the pains or in the joys that it has caused. All the other interests of humanity remain at the door.
—Alexandre Dumas fils
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