Alexandre Dumas quote about youth from The Count of Monte Cristo - At your age we have faith in life; it is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.
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At your age we have faith in life; it is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.
 Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (1845). copy citation

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Author Alexandre Dumas
Source The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic youth hope faith
Date 1845
Language English
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“Oh, yes, yes; be assured I shall save you! Besides, although you suffer much, you do not seem to be in such agony as you were before.»
«Do not mistake! I suffer less because there is in me less strength to endure. At your age we have faith in life; it is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly. Oh, 'tis here—'tis here—'tis over—my sight is gone—my senses fail! Your hand, Dantès! Adieu! Adieu!»
And raising himself by a final effort, in which he summoned all his faculties, he said,—«Monte Cristo, forget not Monte Cristo!»” source
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