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E. F. Benson [1867-1940] English Novelist
Quote rank: 111

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All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

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Intelligence

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