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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
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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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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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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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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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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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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At moments we are all artists.
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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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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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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 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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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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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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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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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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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
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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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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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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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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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