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It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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Enoch Arnold Bennett
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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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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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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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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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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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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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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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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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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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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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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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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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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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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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