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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

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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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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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.
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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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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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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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I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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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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If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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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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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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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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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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