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Man, an animal that makes bargains.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

A well begun is half ended.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.