British - Author | April 24, 1862 - June 17, 1925
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson
ChangeSelfMoreThanSceneNeeded
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
BeautifulWorldSlowGrowMystery
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
LifeWorstLossesMisfortunesFears
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
WisdomPeopleHelpWayRightSeldom
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.
TeacherI AmOpinionsWorthEmotions
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
GoodYouImportantMoreKnowing
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
BusinessMindWayUpClearMeans
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
NewspaperFictionReadFormAvidly
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
LifeAgeLongYouMarchMore
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
ManAnimalMakes
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
MenAmbitionDoingSamePosition
A well begun is half ended.
HalfWellBegunEnded
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