The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
A. C. BENSONI expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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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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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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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 have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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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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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 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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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