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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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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
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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 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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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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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