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Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
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 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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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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What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
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Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...
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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
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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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Every ten years you should delete from your mind a few ideas that your experience has proven to be false.
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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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Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.
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The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
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A gentleman is never in a hurry.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
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Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.
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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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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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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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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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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
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