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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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 war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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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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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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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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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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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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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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 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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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
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