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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.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
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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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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
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If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
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A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.
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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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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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Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice.
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Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.
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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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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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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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The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure...
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Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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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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