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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.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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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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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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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 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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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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