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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
Autobiographer
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Film Writer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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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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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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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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At moments we are all artists.
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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 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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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 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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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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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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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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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.
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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.
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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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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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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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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