E. F. Benson Quotes

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It was such a voice as icebergs might be supposed to use to speak to each other as they passed by night in the Arctic Sea.

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Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic, but we'll hope for the best.

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There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.

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When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

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The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other

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THOUGH the sun was hot on this July morning Mrs Lucas preferred to cover the half-mile that lay between the station and her house on her own brisk feet, and sent on her maid and her luggage in the fly that her husband had ordered to meet her.

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An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.

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Vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")

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It was, in fact, a cold, leaden January, a succession of days in which it is wise to give up Nature as a bad job, and use to the full the aids and artifices of civilization.

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Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.

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