A. C. Benson Quotes

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson

Change, Self, Often

A well begun is half ended.
A. C. Benson

Half, Begun, Ended

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A. C. Benson

Life, Age, Long

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
A. C. Benson

Beautiful, Through, Sense

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
A. C. Benson

Read, Fiction, Newspaper

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
A. C. Benson

Good, Important, Fact

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson

Business, Mind, Making

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. Benson

Help, Seldom, Refuse

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. Benson

Life, Worst, Fears

All the best stories 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. Benson

Best, Reality, Times

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson

Men, Same, Ambition

Man, an animal that makes bargains.
A. C. Benson

Makes, Animal, Bargains

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.
A. C. Benson

Teacher, Try, Show

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: April 24, 1862

Died: June 17, 1925

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