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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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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 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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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored that is to say, he is not living.
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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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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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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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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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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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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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Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
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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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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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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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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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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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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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