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An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
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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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The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.
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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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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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