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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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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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You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
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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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If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.
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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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We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.
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Live as if you were eternal.
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The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure...
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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