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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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What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
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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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Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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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.
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A gentleman is never in a hurry.
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We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
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If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, I took a taxi.
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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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We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.
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When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
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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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Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.
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I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.
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There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.
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A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
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A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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