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.
A. C. BENSONAmbition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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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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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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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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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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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 have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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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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The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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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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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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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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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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