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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.
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 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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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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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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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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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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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.
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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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I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.
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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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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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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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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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The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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