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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.

A. C. Benson

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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Goodness Life Moment Reality Stifle Yourself
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World
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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Different Expression Feeling Normal Sympathy Thinking View
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
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 don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Authority Myself People Slave
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
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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Believe Instinct Reason
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
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Ambition Circumstance Hard Work Labor Men Position Work
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
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
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
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
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
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Fear Loss Reality Sorrow Worst

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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