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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.
Arnold Bennett
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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.
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The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them
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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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One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.
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Being a husband is a whole-time job.
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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 proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
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You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
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The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
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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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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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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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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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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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You are not in charge of the universe you are in charge of yourself.
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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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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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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