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If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
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All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
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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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Live as if you were eternal.
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We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
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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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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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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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Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.
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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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Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
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To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.
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A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.
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A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
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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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Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
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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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