It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
A. C. BENSONI don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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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 have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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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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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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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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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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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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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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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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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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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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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