The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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.
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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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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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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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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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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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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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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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A well begun is half ended.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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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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