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.
A. C. BENSONI 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.
A. C. BENSONThe worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. BENSONAll the best stories in the world 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. BENSONI expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
A. C. BENSONThe 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.
A. C. BENSONI 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. BENSONThe moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
A. C. BENSONReadjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
A. C. BENSONAmbition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. BENSONI don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
A. C. BENSONThe friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
A. C. BENSONIt seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
A. C. BENSONWhen you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A. C. BENSONI think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
A. C. BENSONKeeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
A. C. BENSONAs I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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