When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A. C. BENSONPeople seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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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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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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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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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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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 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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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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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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