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.
A. C. BENSONI have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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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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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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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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A well begun is half ended.
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A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one’s movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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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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