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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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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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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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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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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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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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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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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.
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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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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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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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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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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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