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Quotation by André Maurois
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"Biography and the Novel" Aspects of Biography, trans. by Sydney C. Roberts, Cambridge University Press (1929)"The Art of Loving" The Art of Living (1940)Three Letters on the English Infinite Riches: Gems from a Lifetime of Reading, ed. Leo Rosten, McGraw-Hill (1979)Related Subjects
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us, that the most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
André Maurois (1885–1967), French author, critic. Ariel, ch. 16 (1924).
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