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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

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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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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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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Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction -- that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.
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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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The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
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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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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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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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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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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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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 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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Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.
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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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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 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 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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