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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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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World
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
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
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
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
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
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
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Fear Loss Reality Sorrow Worst
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
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
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right
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
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
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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Company Disappointment Discover Expectation Friendship Hope Smile Survive
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 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

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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