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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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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World
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
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Deal Generosity People Relationship
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
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
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Fear Loss Reality Sorrow Worst
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
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 don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Authority Myself People Slave
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
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
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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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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Company Disappointment Discover Expectation Friendship Hope Smile Survive
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
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right

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