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Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not only do malicious people flock about us in order to witness our ruin, but other unfortunates as well, who have been kept away by our happiness, and now feel close to us on account of our troubles.
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Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
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Style is the outcome of constraint.
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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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Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.
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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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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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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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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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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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Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
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There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.
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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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