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The Count of Monte Cristo Quotes

Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow. - Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo Book Quotes)

Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.[La joie fait quelquefois un effet étrange, elle oppresse comme la douleur.]

Source:(ed. P. F. Collier & Son, 1910), Volume I, Chapter V. The Marriage-Feast, Page 37
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Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo Book Quotes)
  • Book: The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Writer: Alexandre Dumas
  • Genre: Historical Fiction, Adventure
  • Published: 1844
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