Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
ANDRE MAUROISA contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
More Andre Maurois Quotes
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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
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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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Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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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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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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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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No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
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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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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
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There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
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The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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Business is a combination of war and sport.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.
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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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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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