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Writers are diffident creatures — they need encouragement.

Agatha Christie

You don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.
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Age Fight Live Material Willing Yourself
One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.
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Knowledge Oneself Wisdom
It’s what’s in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
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Happiness Spiritual Yourself
There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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Evil Freedom God Man Tendency Willing
Very few of us are what we seem.
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Appearance One Liner Reality
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.
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Account Fact Let Go Theory
If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you.
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Childhood Happiness Yourself
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
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Dog Quiet Wisdom World Wound
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
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Disaster Feeling Horrible Lose Oneself War Win
I’m sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it’s your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.
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Experience Life Mindset Peace Yourself
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find – at the age of 50, say – that a whole new life has opened before you.
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Age Bloom Enjoyment Greatness Life Open Yourself
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
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Appearance Impossible Possible
Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.
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Advice Heart Heart Broken Myself
It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
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Important Inspirational Man Mistake Wasted Time Work
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.
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Care Failure Goodness Happiness People
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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Eat Engagement Service Stomach

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