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Quote by Andre Maurois
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. - Andre

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. – Andre Maurois

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

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. – Andre Maurois

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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. – Andre Maurois

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Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. – William James

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Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in Gods great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions. – Donald Cargill

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The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. – Pam Brown

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