A. C. Benson

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1862-04-24 – 1925-06-17

A. C. Benson was an English essayist, poet, and academic. He also served as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Quotes by A. C. Benson

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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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.
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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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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
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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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