Business is a combination of war and sport.
ANDRE MAUROISIf 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.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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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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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.
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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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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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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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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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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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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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