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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
Autobiographer
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Film Writer
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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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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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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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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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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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 real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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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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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 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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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 price of Justice is eternal publicity.
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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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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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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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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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