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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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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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Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction -- that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.
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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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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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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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.
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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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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.
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