There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
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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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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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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.
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The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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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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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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