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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
A. C. Benson
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A. C. Benson
Age: 63 †
Born: 1862
Born: April 24
Died: 1925
Died: June 16
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Arthur Christopher Benson
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Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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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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I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.
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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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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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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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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
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The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
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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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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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There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.
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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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A well begun is half ended.
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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
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