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Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
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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 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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