We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Quote by Andre Maurois

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The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as...

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as...

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no...

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no...

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do...

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do...

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are...

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are...

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after...

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after...

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you...

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you...

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do...

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do...

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they...

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they...

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the...

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the...

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by...

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by...

Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by

Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it...

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it...

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes......

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes......