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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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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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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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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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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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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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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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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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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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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 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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