E. F. Benson Quotes

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

E. F. Benson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 24, 1867 - February 29, 1940

Topics

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Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It's the drive. It's the passion.

Travis Scott

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Pakistan has done some really terrible things, and yet they also have facilitated our military capabilities in ways that are critical to our country.

Trent Franks

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I don't really know if I would consider myself anything in particular. I would say I'm inspired in a Hasidic way, but I certainly don't keep all the customs and rules I once did.

Matisyahu

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I'm all in favor of the FTC investigating companies when it believes there is proper cause to do so. An investigation, however, can lead to political pressure to bring a case, even if such a case is unwarranted.

Marvin Ammori

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Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks.

Michael Specter

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I have three other siblings, so it's all very equal - even when I get a little cocky, which I usually do. My brother keeps me in a headlock. He says that I'm not a celebrity in this house. I think I'm really chilled out and grounded.

Millie Bobby Brown

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The thing that means most to me is the joy that my mom and my dad got because of my career... They raised seven children on domestic wages, in a city like San Francisco, and did nothing but work, work, work.

Johnny Mathis

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Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.

Christopher Darden

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Without foundations, there can be no fashion.

Christian Dior

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I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected - I think that's it.

Bryan Batt

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Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

Arne Jacobsen

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After the passing of my personal hero, Anthony Bourdain, I've been reflecting a lot on his influence on food culture. He made street food from around the world, that most of us have never heard of, accessible.

Antoni Porowski

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