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All the best stories in the world 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
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A. C. Benson
Age: 63 †
Born: 1862
Born: April 24
Died: 1925
Died: June 16
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Arthur Christopher Benson
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The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.
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I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
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I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.
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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
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What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
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A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
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