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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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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
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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Goodness Life Moment Reality Stifle Yourself
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
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Fear Loss Reality Sorrow Worst
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right
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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Account Book Chronicle Conversation Movement Need Walk
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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Different Expression Feeling Normal Sympathy Thinking View
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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Circumstance Fast Fly Goodness Myself Time Trap
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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Help Oneself Power Time Trouble
A well begun is half ended.
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Beginning End One Liner
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Deal Generosity People Relationship
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Authority Myself People Slave
I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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Deserve Expectation Kindness Myself
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
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

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