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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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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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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.
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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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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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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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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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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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The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
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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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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.
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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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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
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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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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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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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I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately.
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