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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
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The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
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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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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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At moments we are all artists.
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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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The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
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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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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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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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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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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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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 manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.
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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 war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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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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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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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