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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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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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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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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 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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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
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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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The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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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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One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.
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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.
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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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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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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Arnold Bennett
I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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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.
Arnold Bennett
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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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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