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Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.

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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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Live as if you were eternal.
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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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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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For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.
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You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
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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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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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[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.
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Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...
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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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Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.
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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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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves their carcases collide with one another and creak.
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