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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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Enoch Arnold Bennett
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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 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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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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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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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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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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At moments we are all artists.
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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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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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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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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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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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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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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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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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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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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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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