It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
A. C. BENSONWhen you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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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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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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A well begun is half ended.
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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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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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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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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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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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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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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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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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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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