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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

~Jean Giraudoux

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Only the mediocre are always at their best.

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The secret of success is sincerity.

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A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!

~Jean Giraudoux

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A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

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I don't like knowing about other people's feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent's hand. You are sure to lose.

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There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

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There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

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One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

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Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 29th, 1882

Died: January 31st, 1944

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