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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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Film Writer
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Literary Critic
Novelist
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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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 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 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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