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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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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Deal Generosity People Relationship
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
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
I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Authority Myself People Slave
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
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive 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 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
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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Account Book Chronicle Conversation Movement Need Walk
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
I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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Deserve Expectation Kindness Myself
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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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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Age Life Oneself Reach
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
A well begun is half ended.
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Beginning End One Liner

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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