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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
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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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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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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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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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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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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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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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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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The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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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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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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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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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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The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
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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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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 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 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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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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