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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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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
Autobiographer
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Film Writer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
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 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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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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Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.
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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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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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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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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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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
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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 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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