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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
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Help Oneself Power Time Trouble
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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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
I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Authority Myself People Slave
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
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
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
I 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.
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Different Expression Feeling Normal Sympathy Thinking View
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
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Door Journey Joy Mystery Soul Spiritual Thinking
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
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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Beautiful Growth Mystery Pilgrimage Slow World
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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Believe Instinct Reason

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

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