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.
A. C. BENSONThe 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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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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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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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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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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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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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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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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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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