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

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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.

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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. -Arthur Christopher Benson
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

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Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, / How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? / Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; / God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.

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

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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

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