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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
Andre Maurois
Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog
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An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.
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For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.
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Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
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Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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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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Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.
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Style is the outcome of constraint.
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It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
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To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to have one's mouth full of it.
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The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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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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A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.
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Live as if you were eternal.
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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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