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Edward Frederic Benson has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
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There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and…
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An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.
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The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on…
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...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing…
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Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held…
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Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to…
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Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart,…
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often…
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what…
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There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate…
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Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held…
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I need someone their to clutch on to my hands even if it hurts it is better done by someone you love…
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