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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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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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A well begun is half ended.
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Beginning End One Liner
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
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
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
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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Fear Loss Reality Sorrow Worst
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
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 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
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
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
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World
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

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