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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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An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.
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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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Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
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The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.
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In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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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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Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
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Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.
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We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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It is restful to leave one's home not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.
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It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not only do malicious people flock about us in order to witness our ruin, but other unfortunates as well, who have been kept away by our happiness, and now feel close to us on account of our troubles.
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