Talk:One for all, and all for one

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Actually, from reading Dumas's work, it appears that "All for one and one for all" is correct, and that "One for all, and all for one" is the inversion. I suspect this would be the context in which most people would place the motto. Other forms of the motto, such as the Latin, agree with this article.

So how do I make the redirect ("All for one, and one for all") the real article for the motto with respect to the Musketeers, with a link to this one, the present "real" article, and give this article a link to the other one?

From "The Three Musketeers", Chapter 9, D’Artagnan Shows Himself:

"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."

This is the only place I'd seen any form of the motto until I came here.

--Lyle 05:02, 22 March 2006 (UTC)