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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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Goodness Happiness Interest Myself People Person Quite
I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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Deserve Expectation Kindness Myself
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
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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Door Journey Joy Mystery Soul Spiritual Thinking
A well begun is half ended.
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Beginning End One Liner
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World
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
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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Account Book Chronicle Conversation Movement Need Walk
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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Goodness Letter Listening Talk Test Writing
I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Authority Myself People Slave
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right
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
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
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
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
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Help Oneself Power Time Trouble

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