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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.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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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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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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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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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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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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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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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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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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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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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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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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