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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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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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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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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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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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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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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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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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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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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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