The Three Musketeers - Full Version (Annotated) (Literary Classics Collection Book 73)

by Alexandre Dumas

D’Artagnan was amazed to note by what fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended.

All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

By its influence, time has no longer measure, space has no longer distance. We depart from one place, and arrive at another, that is all. Of the interval passed, nothing remains in the memory but a vague mist in which a thousand confused images of trees, mountains, and landscapes are lost.

do not hold life dear enough to be afraid of death.”