"If you've ever really been poor you remain……" — Arnold Bennett
"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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Arnold Bennett
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82 Quotes by Arnold Bennett
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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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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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior…
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served…
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to…
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of…
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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…
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We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time…
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There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its…
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