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Quote by Marcel Proust

“On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.”

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Marcel Proust was a French novelist renowned for his magnum opus, 'In Search of Lost Time'. This novel is considered a classic of 20th-century literature, known for its intricate psychological portrayals and profound exploration of memory. more

“On ne re c° oit pas la sagesse, il faut la de couvrir soi-me" me, apre' s un trajet que personne ne peut faire pour nous, ne peut nous e pargner. We do not receive wisdom.We must discover it ourselves after experiences which no one else can have for us and from which no one else can spare us.”

Spares

Author:Marcel Proust

“Le temps qui change les e" tres ne modifie pas l'image que nous avons garde e d'eux. Although time changes people, it cannot change the image we have already made of them.”

People Made Avon

Author:Marcel Proust

“Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.”

Humor Politics Ignorance Investing Coercion Irritating

Author:Mark Twain

“I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.”

Years Two Humor Millions Years Ago Economics Dollars Investing Debt Two Years Cents Million Dollars Golden Age Two Years Ago Gilded Age Mutual Trust

Book:The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day

Source: The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-day

“I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it...”

Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Made Country Humor Clothes England Experiments Weather Boards Customs Makers Articles Factories Elsewhere Good Art New England Clerks Apprentice

Author:Mark Twain

“Travel is lethal to prejudice.”

Prejudice

Author:Mark Twain

“It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.”

May Different Care Half Shapes Lips Poison Hardship Knuckles Stiff Upper Lip

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.”

People Self Approval Approval Of Others Self Approval

Book:The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories

Source: The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories

“The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other.”

Men Cost Impulse Approval Sole Emergencies Whips Spurs

Book:What Is Man? And Other Essays

Source: What Is Man? And Other Essays

“There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.”

America Sound Church Issues Fairs Clock Sunday Usual Pretext Steeples Medley

Book:A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

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