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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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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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Company Disappointment Discover Expectation Friendship Hope Smile Survive
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
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Fear Loss Reality Sorrow Worst
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
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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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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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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Ambition Circumstance Hard Work Labor Men Position Work
A well begun is half ended.
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Beginning End One Liner
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
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
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
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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Adjust Need Ourselves Pain Process Time
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
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
I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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Deserve Expectation Kindness Myself

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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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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