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Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year’s time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody.

André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
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The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: “I do not know.”

André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
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To love the worthy people who surround me, shun the evil ones, enjoy the good things in life, endure the bad, and remember to forget. This is my optimism. It has helped me to live. May it help you also.

André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
Lettres a l’Inconnue (1953)
 
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In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

[En littérature comme en amour, on est surpris par les choix des autres.]

Maurois - In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others - wist.info quote

André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
The Art of Living [Un Art de Vivre], ch. 6 “The Art of Working” (1939) [tr. Whitall (1940)]
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(Source (French)). Sometimes cited to the New York Times, but only because it was reprinted there in the article “Reading Matter: Some Bookish Quotes” (14 Apr 1963).
 
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
The Art of Living (1963)
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
The Art of Living, ch. 8 “The Art of Growing Old” (1940) [tr. Whitall]
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