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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.
A. C. Benson
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A. C. Benson
Age: 63 †
Born: 1862
Born: April 24
Died: 1925
Died: June 16
Autobiographer
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Arthur Christopher Benson
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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
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