The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
A. C. BENSONIt 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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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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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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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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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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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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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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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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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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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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