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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
Autobiographer
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Film Writer
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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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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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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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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