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In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an actor.

Take care, my worthy host, said Albert, better is a sure enemy to well.

Really, monsieur, I should regard you as a coward, and a traitor too, if I did not, with greater justice, regard you as a madman.

One!" said the count mysteriously, his eyes fixed on the corpse, disfigured by so awful a death.

What the count said was true—the most curious spectacle in life is that of death.

I think it's very good music composed by a human composer and sung by two birds with two feet and no feathers!

I then recollected you gave a breakfast this morning, and here I am. I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

But there are shutters?' 'Yes, there are, but they are never used. He's eccentric, this Count of Monte Cristo, and likes to see the sky, even at night.

MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY!

All men are scoundrels and I am happy to be able to do more than hate them: now I despise them.

finally, that the queen wants a brave, intelligent, devoted man to make a journey to London for her. I have at least two of the three qualities you stand in need of, and here I am.

He leaned over the dying man and whispered in his ear, 'I am—' And his lips uttered a name so softly that he himself seemed to be afraid to hear it.

Yes; your house is dull enough to drive people to think.

the count, with the smile which he made at will either terrible or benevolent

it means resignation, madam, the first of all the virtues.

I always said that this cadet from Gascony was a well of wisdom, murmured Athos;

some trace in contemporary works of these extraordinary names which had so strongly awakened our curiosity.

The truth is that you are afraid.' 'Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I know not what you mean.

The pretty landlady was desolate. She would have taken D'Artagnan not only as her husband, but as her God, he was so handsome and had so fierce a mustache.

You are without a doubt a remarkable man,' Danglars said. 'And whatever philosophers say, it's marvellous to be rich.

The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence.