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All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority, ... but without the huge body of traditional knowledge, accurate and inaccurate together, there would be nothing even to correct. Progress is not made in spite of authority, but by means of it.

— Stella Benson The Venture of Rational Faith (1908)

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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.

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

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