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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.
Andre Maurois
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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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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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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
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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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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
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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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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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Artificial inflation of stocks must be considered a crime as serious as counterfeiting, which it closely resembles.
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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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