People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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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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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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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 don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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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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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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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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 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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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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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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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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