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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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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 price of Justice is eternal publicity.
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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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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.
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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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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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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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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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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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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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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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At moments we are all artists.
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Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.
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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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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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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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