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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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Old age diminishes our strength it takes away our pleasures one after the other it withers the soul as well as the body it renders adventure and friendship difficult and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.
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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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The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
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He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.
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Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
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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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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
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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 art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
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A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
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To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.
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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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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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A gentleman is never in a hurry.
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