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A. C. Benson [1862-1925] British

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Arthur Christopher Benson was an English essayist, poet, and author and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.	Change	101
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.	Age	102
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.		103
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.		104
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.	Wisdom	105
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.		106
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.	Business	107
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.		108
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.		109
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.	Teacher	110
A well begun is half ended.		111
Man, an animal that makes bargains.		112
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.		113

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