A. C. Benson Quotes

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• Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
• 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.
• The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
• When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
• People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
• As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
• I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much…
• I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
• All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests…
• It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
• Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
• What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease,…
• 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…
• Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I…

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