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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
Autobiographer
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Film Writer
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Novelist
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Enoch Arnold Bennett
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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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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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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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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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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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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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At moments we are all artists.
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Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.
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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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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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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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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 makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.
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The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.
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Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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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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