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 More Quotes by A. C. Benson More Quotes From A. C. Benson The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed. A. C. Benson persons needed needs There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer. A. C. Benson dawn mind people I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments. A. C. Benson sitting disappointment may I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy. A. C. Benson unhappy happiness people I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation. A. C. Benson deserve appreciation Congenial labor is essence of happiness. A. C. Benson essence labor work The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life. A. C. Benson real-life real may 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 decision business mean I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed. A. C. Benson views sympathy thinking Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam! A. C. Benson sticks jam pot When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. A. C. Benson age littles long 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 Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste. A. C. Benson more good you important I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. A. C. Benson read newspaper form fiction Man, an animal that makes bargains. A. C. Benson makes man animal
