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Alexander Dumas Quotes

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Alexander Dumas

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