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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.Andre Maurois
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.Andre Maurois
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He who wants to do everything will never do anything.Andre Maurois
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Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.Andre Maurois
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The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.Andre Maurois
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In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.Andre Maurois
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Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.Andre Maurois
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.Andre Maurois
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Men fear silence as they fear solitude because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.Andre Maurois
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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.Andre Maurois
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.Andre Maurois
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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.Andre Maurois
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.Andre Maurois
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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.Andre Maurois
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.Andre Maurois
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.Andre Maurois
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.Andre Maurois
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.Andre Maurois
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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.Andre Maurois
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.Andre Maurois
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.Andre Maurois
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.Andre Maurois
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.Andre Maurois
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.Andre Maurois
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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.Andre Maurois
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.Andre Maurois
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.Andre Maurois