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…
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A. C. Benson
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About A. C. Benson
Arthur Christopher Benson, was an English essayist, poet and academic, who served as the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He wrote the lyrics of Edward Elgar's Coronation Ode, including the words of the patriotic song "Land of Hope and Glory" (1902). His literary criticism, poems, and volumes of essays were highly regarded. He was also noted as an author of ghost stories. According to contemporary critics and historians, he is thought to have been homosexual; homosexual themes often…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by A. C. BensonVery often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.