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Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors by trying at the outset to imitate them by daring then to be original by destroying one's first productions.
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 clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.
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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 appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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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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The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.
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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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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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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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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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The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.
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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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To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
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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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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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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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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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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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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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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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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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