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Quotation from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
“So long as he was surrounded by his friends he retained his youth and the poetry of his character”
Twenty Years After, Chapter VI (D'Artagnan in his Fortieth Year), trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation
The narrator explains why d'Artagnan, alone in garrison for twenty years, has hardened into a comfortable, calculating trooper.
Citation: "So long as he was surrounded by his friends he retained his youth and the poetry of his character" — Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After, Chapter VI (D'Artagnan in his Fortieth Year), trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation. (id dumas-twenty-years-after-q3)
