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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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I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how…
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If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.
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Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the…
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Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking…
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WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.
— Ambrose Bierce
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If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in…
— Daniel Taylor
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Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go?
— Ron Killings
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The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
— Richard Leakey
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