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

A. C. Benson

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
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
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Ambition Circumstance Hard Work Labor Men Position Work
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
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
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
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
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 expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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Deserve Expectation Kindness Myself
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 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 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
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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