A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. - Anna Brackett
We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.
- Anna Brackett
If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. … - Anna Brackett
If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. …
When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, no… - Anna Brackett
When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, no…
We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live. - Anna Brackett
We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live.
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energe… - Anna Brackett
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energe…
You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold diff… - Anna Brackett
You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold diff…
There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession. - Anna Brackett
There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.
Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use. - Anna Brackett
Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.
Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really impor… - Anna Brackett
Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really impor…
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