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be content with my friendship, because I cannot give you anything else.’
A vast wave of happiness cut them off from the world and they spoke only those half-formed words that are the outpourings of such intense joy that they resemble the expression of pain.
‘I am not proud, but I am happy – and happiness, I believe, is even more dazzling than pride.’
Recovering hope, he had recovered patience.
‘Is the world full of tigers and crocodiles, then?’ ‘Yes, except that the tigers and crocodiles with two legs are more dangerous than the rest.’
If a shaft of lightning had fallen at Dantès’ feet and opened an abyss with hell in its depths, it would not have produced a more startling or electric or overwhelming effect on him than these unexpected words.
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory, the second philosophy.’
