All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives. — E. F. Benson

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Mini who’s who:

E. F. Benson : English Novelist
Born:  July 24, 1867
Died:  February 29, 1940

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