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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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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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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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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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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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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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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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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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