# Quote — Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

> "Calm yourself, my friend," said the count, with the smile which he made at will either terrible or benevolent, and which now expressed only the kindliest feeling; "I am not an inspector, but a traveller, brought here by a curiosity he half repents of, since he causes you to lose your time."

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## More from this book

> "We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude."

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> Monte Cristo had seen enough. Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm; that of the telegraph man was horticulture. He began gathering the grape-leaves which screened the sun from the grapes, and won the heart of the gardener. "Did you come here, sir, to see the telegraph?" he said.
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> "Yes, if it isn't contrary to the rules."
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> "Oh, no," said the gardener; "not in the least, since there is no danger that anyone can possibly understand what we are saying."
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> "I have been told," said the count, "that you do not always yourselves understand the signals you repeat."
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> "That is true, sir, and that is what I like best," said the man, smiling.
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> "Why do you like that best?"
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> "Because then I have no responsibility. I am a machine then, and nothing else, and so long as I work, nothing more is required of me."
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> "Is it possible," said Monte Cristo to himself, "that I can have met with a man that has no ambition? That would spoil my plans."

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> "You must teach me a small part of what you know," said Dantes, "if only to prevent your growing weary of me. I can well believe that so learned a person as yourself would prefer absolute solitude to being tormented with the company of one as ignorant and uninformed as myself. If you will only agree to my request, I promise you never to mention another word about escaping." The abbe smiled. "Alas, my boy," said he, "human knowledge is confined within very narrow limits; and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history, and the three or four modern languages with which I am acquainted, you will know as much as I do myself. Now, it will scarcely require two years for me to communicate to you the stock of learning I possess."
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> "Two years!" exclaimed Dantes; "do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time?"
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> "Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other."

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