"...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it……" — Edward Frederic Benson
"...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")"
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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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Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time,…
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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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