When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A. C. BENSONAll 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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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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A well begun is half ended.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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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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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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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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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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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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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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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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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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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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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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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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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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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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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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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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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 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 expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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