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.
A. C. BENSONKeeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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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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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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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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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one’s movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
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