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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

Arnold Bennett

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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
Autobiographer
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Film Writer
Journalist
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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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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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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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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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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At moments we are all artists.
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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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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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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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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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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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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
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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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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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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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