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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

Arnold Bennett

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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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Film Writer
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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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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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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Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: I shall alter that when I have a little more time? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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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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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 will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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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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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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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 pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.
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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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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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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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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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