When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A. C. BENSONDo 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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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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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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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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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 moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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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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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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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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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 don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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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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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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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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