The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
ANDRE MAUROISTo be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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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.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
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Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
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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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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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