Andre Maurois

Puzzles

• The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to ___.
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• We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called ___.
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• Men fear ___ as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
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• A successful ___ is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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• Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a ___ man has no time to form.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Andre Maurois?

  • → I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
  • → At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
  • → There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
  • → A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
  
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