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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
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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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
~ E. F. Benson
About
Early
Impressions
Lightning
Like
Night
Seen
Through
Window
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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
Alive
Comparable
Dreams
Emotionally
First
Five
Haunting
Illustrated
Impressions
Memories
Only
Possess
Texture
Years
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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
Any
Apart
Art
Bracelet
Character
Country
Did
Elegant
Expressive
Letters
Music
National
National Character
Queen
Quite
Regard
Resembling
Scarf
Something
Soul
Victoria
Way
Were
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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.
~ E. F. Benson
Alike
Any
Been
Brought
Common
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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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
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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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
Bird
Bush
Devoted
Disgusted
Every
However
Inspire
Mere
Often
Prudence
Reduced
Romance
Sentiments
Silence
Sing
Them
Which
Will
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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
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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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.
~ E. F. Benson
Bodily
Eats
Gourmet
Greedy
He
Health
His
Injuring
Knowing
Man
Much
Slave
Thereby
Too
Too Much
Vice
Which
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
Any
Appreciates
Beauty
Ear
Educate
Eye
Fine
Four
Gift
Give
Harmonies
Lower
Much
No Reason
Other
Our
Palate
Perceptions
Pleasures
Quite
Reason
Right
Sense
Senses
Sound
Subtle
Suppose
Taste
Than
Us
Value
Way
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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
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
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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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
Aspirations
Designed
Eclipse
Efforts
Exception
Gentlemen
Literary
Magazine
Matter
New
No Exception
Popular
Previous
Start
University
Which
Wit
Young
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E. F. Benson
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BirthDate
24 July, 1867
DeathDate
29 February, 1940
Country
United Kingdom
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