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  • ...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")

    E. F. Benson (2015). “Spook Stories - Complete Collection: 25 Supernatural, Mystery, Ghost and Haunting Tales”, p.80, e-artnow
  • Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic.

    E. F. Benson (2015). “The Collected Works of E. F. Benson (Illustrated): Dodo Trilogy, Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp, David Blaize, The Room in The Tower, Paying Guests, The Relentless City, The Angel of Pain, The Rubicon and more”, p.136, e-artnow
  • The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.

    E F Benson (2014). “Mapp and Lucia Omnibus: Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp and Mapp and Lucia”, p.43, Random House
  • There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.

    E. F. Benson (2014). “Delphi Works of E. F. Benson with the Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels (Illustrated)”, p.3230, Delphi Classics
  • 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.

    Dream   Memories   Book  
    E. F. Benson (2014). “Delphi Works of E. F. Benson with the Complete Mapp and Lucia Novels (Illustrated)”, p.6990, Delphi Classics
  • When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

    E.F. Benson (2015). “Daisy's Aunt”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.

    Light   Ideas   Brain  
    E. F. Benson (2015). “MAKE WAY FOR LUCIA - Complete Mapp and Lucia Series (6 Novels & 2 Short Story Collections): Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp, Lucia in London, Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress or The Worshipful Lucia, Trouble for Lucia, The Male Impersonator and Desirable Residences”, p.339, e-artnow
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