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A. C. Benson
British
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About the author
A well begun is half ended.
A. C. Benson,
British
Author
All the best stories 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.
A. C. Benson,
British
Author
#Reality
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson,
British
Author
#Men
#Ambition
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
A. C. Benson,
British
Author
#World
#Sense
#Mystery
#Pilgrimage
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. Benson,
British
Author
#Life
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson,
British
Author
#Mind
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson,
British
Author
#Self
#Change
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. Benson,
British
Author
#Right
#People
#Help
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
A. C. Benson,
British
Author
#Fact
#Taste
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.
A. C. Benson,
British
Author
#Being
#Emotions
#Worth
#Duty
#Opinions
#Boys
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
A. C. Benson,
British
Author
#Fiction
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
A. C. Benson,
British
Author
#Man
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A. C. Benson,
British
Author
#Life
#Age
#March