One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. BENSONI 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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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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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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The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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A well begun is half ended.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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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 expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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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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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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