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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

A. C. Benson

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A. C. Benson
Age: 63 †
Born: 1862
Born: April 24
Died: 1925
Died: June 16
Autobiographer
Diarist
Poet
Arthur Christopher Benson
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World
Appearances
Expensive
Keeping
Appearance

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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.
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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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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 don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.
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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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