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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
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Film Writer
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Enoch Arnold Bennett
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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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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 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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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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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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I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.
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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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The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
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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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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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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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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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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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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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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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At moments we are all artists.
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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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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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