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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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Enoch Arnold Bennett
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Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her she knows by a process of the intellect but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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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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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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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: I shall alter that when I have a little more time? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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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