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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

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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
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
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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Goodness Letter Listening Talk Test Writing
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World
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
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
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
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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Account Book Chronicle Conversation Movement Need Walk
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 have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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Goodness Happiness Interest Myself People Person Quite
A well begun is half ended.
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Beginning End One Liner
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
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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Best Deep Escape Oneself Reality Story World
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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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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Ambition Circumstance Hard Work Labor Men Position Work

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