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

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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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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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Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.
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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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One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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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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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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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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I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately.
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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 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 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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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.
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