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Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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Émile Salomon Wilhelm
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Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog
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Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.
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Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors by trying at the outset to imitate them by daring then to be original by destroying one's first productions.
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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
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Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
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Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves their carcases collide with one another and creak.
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The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.
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One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.
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Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.
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The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure...
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