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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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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
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Authority Myself People Slave
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
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
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right
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 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
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Deal Generosity People Relationship
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Fear Loss Reality Sorrow Worst
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
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 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
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 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

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