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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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Film Writer
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Novelist
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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At moments we are all artists.
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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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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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