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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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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 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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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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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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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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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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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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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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.
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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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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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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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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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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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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