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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.

A. C. Benson

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right
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 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
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
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
I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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Deserve Expectation Kindness Myself
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
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
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Deal Generosity People Relationship
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
A well begun is half ended.
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Beginning End One Liner
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 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
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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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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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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