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Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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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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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
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Live as if you were eternal.
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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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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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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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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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