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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!
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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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.
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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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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
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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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