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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.

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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A well begun is half ended.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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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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I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.
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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 essence of happiness.
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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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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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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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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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Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!
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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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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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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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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
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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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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 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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