Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can’t be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!
A. C. BENSONDo you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can’t be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!
A. C. BENSONThe moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
A. C. BENSONI have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
A. C. BENSONAs I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
A. C. BENSONPeople who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
A. C. BENSONI expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
A. C. BENSONA well begun is half ended.
A. C. BENSONPeople seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. BENSONKeeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
A. C. BENSONI think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
A. C. BENSONThe test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
A. C. BENSONReadjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
A. C. BENSONI never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
A. C. BENSONCongenial labor is the secret of happiness.
A. C. BENSONAmbition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. BENSONI don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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