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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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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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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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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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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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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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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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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.
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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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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 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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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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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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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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 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 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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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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