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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
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Novelist
Playwright
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.
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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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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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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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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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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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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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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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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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One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.
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The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
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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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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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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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