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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living may suffer greatly, but they are not bored. Wealthy men and women become bored when they depend upon the theater for their enjoyment instead of making their own lives interesting.
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When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised
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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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Style is the outcome of constraint.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
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Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.
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British conversation is like a game of cricket or a boxing match personal allusions are forbidden like hitting below the belt, and anyone who loses his temper is disqualified.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
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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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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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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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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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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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Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
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You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
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Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true everything that is not puts us in a rage.
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