“It is only the dead who do not return.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers
Source: The Three Musketeers
“[Translated]: It is only the dead who do not return.”
II n'ya que les morts qui ne reviennent pas.
Speech, 1794, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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