For these difficulties I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.
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Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal to them some of the joys by the way which they might otherwise miss.
Robert Baden-Powell
It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it . . . should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum.
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As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up 'The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one.'
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A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realize at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.
Robert Baden-Powell
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Robert Baden-Powell
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