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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

~Andre Maurois

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Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

~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

Topics: Acknowledged Being Clearly Fitness Force Important Lacking Leader Leaders Most Quality Questioned The Most Important Whose

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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

~Andre Maurois

Topics: Appreciate Frankness Insolence Like Others Those Us Who

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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

~Andre Maurois

Topics: Every Illusion Lost Novel Title

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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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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

~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

Topics: Age Belongs Body Evil Far Feeling Finished Game Generations Hair Indifference Late More Old Old Age Rising Soul Stage Than Too Too Late True Weakening White Wrinkles

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Business is a combination of war and sport.

~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

Topics: Angel Average Been Complete Enemy Fool Indifference Intelligence Look Make Man Might People Scornful Them Treated Turns Well Who Woman You

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: July 26th, 1885

Died: October 9th, 1967

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