“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of an escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times — how to escape.”

—  A. C. Benson

Escape, and Other Essays (1915)

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English essayist, poet, author and Master of Magdalene Coll… 1862–1925

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