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.
A. C. BENSONI expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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 friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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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 moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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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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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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 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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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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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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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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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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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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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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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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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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