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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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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he…
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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
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Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses…
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In his sophomore year Wilbanks tried out for the high school basketball team and made it. On the first day of practice…
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Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.
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People are kind of upset with British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward. Over the weekend, he was out on his yacht. And when…
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The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is…
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The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about…
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The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining…
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