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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.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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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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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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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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