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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.

A. C. Benson

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
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World
A well begun is half ended.
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Beginning End One Liner
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Authority Myself People Slave
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
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
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Deal Generosity People Relationship
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
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
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
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
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
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
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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Adjust Need Ourselves Pain Process Time

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