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Quotation from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”

Alexandre Dumas (spoken by Narrator)

The Three Musketeers, Chapter XI, In Which the Plot Thickens, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation

Portrait of Alexandre Dumas

The narrator admits that d'Artagnan, absorbed in Constance, has forgotten all about her arrested husband.

Citation: "Love is the most selfish of all the passions." — Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers, Chapter XI, In Which the Plot Thickens, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation. (id the-three-musketeers-q3)

Portrait: Alexander Dumas père (1802-1870), Nadar, Public domain.

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