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