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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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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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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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We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.
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A gentleman is never in a hurry.
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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.
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All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
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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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Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
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When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised
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A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.
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People are discontent men are troubled and the literature is excellent.
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