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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Arnold Bennett

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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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Film Writer
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Enoch Arnold Bennett
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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
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The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately.
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The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored that is to say, he is not living.
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