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A. C. Benson

b: Wellington, England, Apr 24, 1862

d: , Jun 17, 1925

English. Author. Wrote popular essays, wrote words to song "Land of Hope and Glory."

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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

Friend, of my infinite dreams
Little enough endures;
Little howe'er it seems,
It is yours, all yours.

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.

I don't like authority. At least I don't like other people's authority.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.