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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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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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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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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
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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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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 war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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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 price of Justice is eternal publicity.
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.
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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 makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.
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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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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 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 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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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