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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

Topics: Aspirations Designed Eclipse Efforts Exception Gentlemen Literary Magazine Matter New No Exception Popular Previous Start University Which Wit Young

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Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.

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Topics: Alike Any Been Brought Common Common Sense End Genius Gift Guide Had Her Infallible Life Mother Private Private Life Public Queen Rare Sense She Simplicity Time Up Utmost Victoria Which Woman

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Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.

~E. F. Benson

Topics: Any Apart Art Bracelet Character Country Did Elegant Expressive Letters Music National Queen Quite Regard Resembling Scarf Something Soul Victoria Way Were

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Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.

~E. F. Benson

Topics: Application Better Certain Considered Discussion Done Feminine Held Just Like Lipstick Meet Mouth Nose Private Processes Rightly Subjects Toilet Victorian Were Which Wrongly

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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

~E. F. Benson

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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.

~E. F. Benson

Topics: Being Blind Boasting Care Cold Deaf Devoid Does Eats Five He Head His Man Merely Might Owing Perpetual Pride Proud Sad Sense Senses Smell Taste Tells Us Well Who

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There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.

~E. F. Benson

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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.

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Topics: Bodily Eats Gourmet Greedy He Health His Injuring Knowing Man Much Slave Thereby Too Too Much Vice Which Who

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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.

~E. F. Benson

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: July 24th, 1867

Died: February 29th, 1940

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