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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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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
— Larry Bird
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I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
— James Norman Hall
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I don't resent working long hours. I shouldn't- I'm the one who set up my life this way. I love to work.…
— Jim Henson
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One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.
— Edwin Moses
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Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a…
— Wilferd Peterson
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I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.
— David McCullough
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Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and…
— David Morrissey
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
— Ford Frick
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In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than…
— Jacques Barzun
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