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Alexandre Dumas (born Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.

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All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

—Alexandre Dumas

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All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

—Alexandre Dumas

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Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—'Wait and hope'.

—Alexandre Dumas

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A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

—Segal's Law

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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

—Natalie Goldberg

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

—Voltaire

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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance. When man learns better, he will learn to befriend even these. Today he does not even know how to befriend a man of a different religion or from a different country.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before… He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

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