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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

~E. F. Benson

Topics: Activity Because Boy Compulsory Court Drive Field Football Football Field Games Go Growing Instinct Like Limbs Make Most Natural Need Physical Physical Activity Sinews Them

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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

~E. F. Benson

Topics: Affection Boy Children Could Does Each Felt Forgotten Golden Having He Life Love Man Mature Memory Missed Most Never Other Prizes Retain Romantic Scarcely Surrounded Though Who Wife Youth

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All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

~E. F. Benson

Topics: Always Any Apply Been Days Directly Earlier Ever Failed Grey Had Intelligence Language Learning Make Me Never Possessed Received Regards Sky Sunshine Teaching Vividly

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: July 24th, 1867

Died: February 29th, 1940

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