Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
- A. C. Benson
Doing, Often, Offices, Creeping
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
- A. C. Benson
Worst, Misfortunes, Sorrows, Losses
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
- A. C. Benson
Wisdom, Help, Offers, Right Way
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, Stories, Which, Escape
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
- A. C. Benson
Newspaper, Read, Form, Continuous
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
- A. C. Benson
Man, Animal, Makes, Bargain
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
- A. C. Benson
Grow, Through, Sense, Gather
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
- A. C. Benson
Life, Long, More, March
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
Own, Show, Tastes, Suffered
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, Means, Suddenly
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
- A. C. Benson
Important, Fact, Knowing, Good Taste
A well begun is half ended.
- A. C. Benson
Well, Begun, Half, Ended
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
- A. C. Benson
Change, Needed, Very, Often
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