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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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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
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The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
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You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
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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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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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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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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
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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 well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction -- that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.
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The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.
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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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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
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I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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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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