"To most boys with growing limbs and swelling……" — Edward Frederic Benson
"To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them."
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Edward Frederic Benson
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18 Quotes by Edward Frederic Benson
Edward Frederic Benson has 18 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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 was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time,…
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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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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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