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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.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.
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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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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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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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In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.
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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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We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.
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One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.
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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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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.
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Advice is always a confession.
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It is restful to leave one's home not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.
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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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