Arnold Bennett Quotes

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• The moment you're born you're done for.
• A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
• Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
• Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
• The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
• 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…
• The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
• The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
• Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as…
• 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…
• The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does…
• 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…
• Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
• The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
• Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
• 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…
• Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
• During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.
• I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it…
• Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

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