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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, I took a taxi.
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When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised
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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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In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.
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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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It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...
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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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To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
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Style is the outcome of constraint.
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He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
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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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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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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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Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.
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A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
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Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice.
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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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