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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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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
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Emotion Man Opinion Responsibility Suffering Taste Teacher Teaching Try Worth
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
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
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
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
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 friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right
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 have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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Goodness Happiness Interest Myself People Person Quite
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
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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Clear Direction Help Oneself See Solution Statement Writing
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
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

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