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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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Enoch Arnold Bennett
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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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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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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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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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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 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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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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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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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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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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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.
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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 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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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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The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
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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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