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Which Quotes by Edward Frederic Benson
- Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes…
- Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had…
- Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in…
- The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to…
- Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and…
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