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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.

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One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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Clear Ground Mindset Oneself Way
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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Adjust Need Ourselves Pain Process Time
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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Goodness Life Moment Reality Stifle Yourself
The 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.
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Goodness Letter Listening Talk Test Writing
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
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!
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Circumstance Fast Fly Goodness Myself Time Trap
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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I 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.
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Company Disappointment Discover Expectation Friendship Hope Smile Survive
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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Age Life Oneself Reach
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Fear Loss Reality Sorrow Worst
A well begun is half ended.
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Beginning End One Liner
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Ambition Circumstance Hard Work Labor Men Position Work
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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Best Deep Escape Oneself Reality Story World
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.

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