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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!

A. C. Benson

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right
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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Best Deep Escape Oneself Reality Story World
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Deal Generosity People Relationship
I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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Deserve Expectation Kindness Myself
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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Beautiful Growth Mystery Pilgrimage Slow World
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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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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Emotion Man Opinion Responsibility Suffering Taste Teacher Teaching Try Worth
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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Circumstance Fast Fly Goodness Myself Time Trap
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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Company Disappointment Discover Expectation Friendship Hope Smile Survive
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World
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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Clear Ground Mindset Oneself Way
A well begun is half ended.
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Beginning End One Liner
I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Authority Myself People Slave
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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Age Life Oneself Reach

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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