Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
ANDRE MAUROISNo one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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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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A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
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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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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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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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Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
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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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