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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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If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, I took a taxi.
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Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.
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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 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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
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Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
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We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.
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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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There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.
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Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
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Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
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We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
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Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
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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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