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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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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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Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true everything that is not puts us in a rage.
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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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The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...
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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 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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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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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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It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...
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Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.
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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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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
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We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
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A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
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Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...
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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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Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.
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