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I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.
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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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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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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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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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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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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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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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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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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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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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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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
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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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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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A well begun is half ended.
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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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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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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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