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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Alexandre Dumas

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”

-  Alexandre Dumas, born 24 July 1802.

French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure, including The Three Musketeers (1844) and The Count of Monte Cristo (1845). His father, general Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, was born in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) from a French nobleman and a black slave woman.

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