"Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common……" — Edward Frederic Benson
"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 been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide."
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Edward Frederic Benson
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18 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.
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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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...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and…
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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…
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Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something…
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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,…
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not…
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There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a…
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