I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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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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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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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 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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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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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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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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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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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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