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We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

— Stella Benson The Little World (1925)

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Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

The Venture of Rational Faith (1908)

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people — the autobiographists and the biographists.

Pipers and a Dancer (1924)

She specialised in feminism, and in her eyes to be a woman was in itself a good argument.

I Pose (1915)

The gardener was one of those who are never surprised without being thunderstruck.

I Pose (1915)

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

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