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> [But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-benson/but-none-of-us-wants-to-be-average-that-we-are-so-is-a-melancholy/)

[Margaret Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-benson/)

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## More by Margaret Benson

> [apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-benson/apparent-contradiction-is-often-the-opportunity-for-new-discovery-in/)

[Margaret Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-benson/)

> [But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-benson/but-none-of-us-wants-to-be-average-that-we-are-so-is-a-melancholy/)

[Margaret Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-benson/)

> [Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-benson/reason-cannot-remain-a-bare-intellectual-faculty-it-must-become-a/)

[Margaret Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-benson/)

> [The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-benson/the-cat-is-above-all-things-a-dramatist/)

[Margaret Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-benson/)

> [The spiritual is not the emotional; we may receive spiritual things emotionally, but to receive them rationally we must receive them with the mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-benson/the-spiritual-is-not-the-emotional-we-may-receive-spiritual-things/)

[Margaret Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-benson/)

> [A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-benson/a-plate-is-distasteful-to-a-cat-a-newspaper-still-worse-they-like-to/)

[Margaret Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-benson/)

> [He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-benson/he-lives-in-the-halflights-in-secret-places-free-and-alone-this/)

[Margaret Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-benson/)

> [... all progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority ... without the huge body of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-benson/all-progress-in-knowledge-takes-place-through-the-correction-of-that/)

[Margaret Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-benson/)

> [All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-benson/all-progress-in-knowledge-takes-place-through-the-correction-of-that-2/)

[Margaret Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-benson/)

> [Dogs have owners, cats have staff.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-benson/dogs-have-owners-cats-have-staff/)

[Margaret Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-benson/)

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