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The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.
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Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true everything that is not puts us in a rage.
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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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Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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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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Old age diminishes our strength it takes away our pleasures one after the other it withers the soul as well as the body it renders adventure and friendship difficult and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.
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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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An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, but he can totter with his grandson. Our first and last steps have the same rhythm.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
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We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.
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Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.
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Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...
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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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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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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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A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
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An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.
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