just finished The Three Musketeers last night and boy was it a doozie. By far one of the best novels i've read (then again i dont read very many :P ). anyway i noticed something. now correct me if i'm wrong but do any of the musketeers anywhere say "all for one, one for all"? looking back on the novel i cant seem to find it once. did you guys find it?
I rememer reading that line. I can't name the exact spot, but I do know that it is toward the beginning of the book.
Go to gutenberg.org
Bring up the full text of "The Three Musketeers" by Alexander Dumas
and do a string search on "all for one"
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1257
and you will find that the phrase occurs once in the entire novel
at the very end of Chapter 9, D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF
"PARBLEU! Indeed I do," said Athos; "I not only approve of what
he has done, but I congratulate him upon it."
"And now, gentlemen," said d'Artagnan, without stopping to
explain his conduct to Porthos, "All for one, one for all--that
is our motto, is it not?"
"And yet--" said Porthos.
"Hold out your hand and swear!" cried Athos and Aramis at once.
Overcome by example, grumbling to himself, nevertheless, Porthos
stretched out his hand, and the four friends repeated with one
voice the formula dictated by d'Artagnan:
"All for one, one for all."
"That's well! Now let us everyone retire to his own home," said
d'Artagnan, as if he had done nothing but command all his life;
"and attention! For from this moment we are at feud with the
cardinal."
I donīt remember that, I donīt undestand how I can hav forgotten that if Aramis is in it....
Man I just canīt spell...
I can not remember that part of the novel and I am still reading it, but then again I do have a tendency to forget things within seconds of reading them, but I do remember most of the novel, just not that part..lol..but I do remember them saying 'All for one and one for all' line!
Yes, it's one of those tragically abused and overused phrases in literary history, which appears only once in all 5000 pages of the trilogy. I believe the phrase "Shut up, Porthos!" appears quite a bit more frequently.
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