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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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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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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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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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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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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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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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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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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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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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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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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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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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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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One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.
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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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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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