The 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. 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 have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
A. C. BENSONOne’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. BENSONPeople who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
A. C. BENSONI 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.
A. C. BENSONThe worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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. BENSONReadjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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 moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
A. C. BENSONCongenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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. 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. 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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