All for one and one for all
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“All for one and one for all” is best known as the motto of the title characters in the book The Three Musketeers, by the nineteenth-century French author Alexandre Dumas.
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But Lester has added to their motto, "All for one and one for all," his own realistic coda: "And every man for himself."
From Time Magazine Archive
All for one and one for all And God be with us all.
From Time Magazine Archive
"All for one and one for all," Sammy sniffled.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
Their motto was the motto of the Three Musketeers: "All for one, and one for all."
From The Dozen from Lakerim by Hughes, Rupert
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