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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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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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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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Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her she knows by a process of the intellect but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.
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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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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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At moments we are all artists.
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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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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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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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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
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