"Good and beautiful things may easily be spoiled by suggestions of rights and duties"
— A. C. Benson

January 1, 1970

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Extracts from the Letters of Dr. A.C. Benson to M.E. Allen, Jarrolds, 1926. Quoted in Murphy, Edward F. Webster's Treasury of Relevant Quotations, Greenwich House, New York, 1983 (pg. 228).