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Quote by Andre Maurois
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity --

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity — gunpowder and romantic love. – Andre Maurois

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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. – Andre Maurois

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Happiness
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. – Andre Maurois

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Women
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Inventing, Inventions
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The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a mans house is a monopoly. – Daniel Webster

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Inventing, Inventions

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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