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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

~Arnold Bennett

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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

~Arnold Bennett

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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Deliberate Jolly Opinion Strange Strange World Well World

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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.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Always Concentrate Even Going Had Keep Keep Going More Never Next Object Served Shall Something Time Tomorrow Until Useful Waiting Week

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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

~Arnold Bennett

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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Effective Function Heaven Hell Hell Is Inferno Inhabitants Knows Make None Purgatory Reality Secret

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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.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Friend Godlike He Judging Remember Same Superior Well You

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Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Agreeable Get Just Optimism Pessimism Used You

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We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Activities Best Best Way Divide Need Sense Time Value Various Way

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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 suffer for it.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Be Prepared Cause Champagne Heels High High Heels Inconvenient Like Magnificent May Must Prepared Suffer

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: May 27th, 1867

Died: March 27th, 1931

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