I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
A. C. BENSONA well begun is half ended.
More A. C. Benson Quotes
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can’t be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!
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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.
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I 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.
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I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
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A well begun is half ended.
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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one’s movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
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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.
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