Utmost Simplicity Quotes by Edward Frederic Benson

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