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

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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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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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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 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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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 war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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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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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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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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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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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
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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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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
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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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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
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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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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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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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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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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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