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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.

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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
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
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
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World
I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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Deserve Expectation Kindness Myself
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
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Fear Loss Reality Sorrow Worst
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right
A well begun is half ended.
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Beginning End One Liner
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 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
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 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
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Deal Generosity People Relationship
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
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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Different Expression Feeling Normal Sympathy Thinking View

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