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A. C. Benson Quotes (13)
"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
— a-c-benson"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way."
— a-c-benson"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
— a-c-benson"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."
— a-c-benson"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
— a-c-benson"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
— a-c-benson"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
— a-c-benson"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
— a-c-benson"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."
— a-c-benson"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
— a-c-benson"Man, an animal that makes bargains."
— a-c-benson"A well begun is half ended."
— a-c-benson"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."
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