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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.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction -- that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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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.
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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
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The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them
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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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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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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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The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
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