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Being a husband is a whole-time job.

Arnold Bennett

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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
Journalist
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Enoch Arnold Bennett
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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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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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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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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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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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 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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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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The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.
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In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.
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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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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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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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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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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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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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The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
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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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