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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Amusing Ingenuity Little Little Money Money More Much Profitable Than Vastly Without

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Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Always Behave Had Happened Matter Nothing

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The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Advantage Being Exactly Great Great Advantage Knows Rut Where

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Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Be True Enough Hope Journalists Keep Know Long Say Saying Thing True Will

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Affairs After Be Happy Challenge Chiefly Effort Failed Feels Full Happiness Happy He Honest Idea Life Paramount Possibly Satisfaction Satisfied Some Take Up Who

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The moment you're born you're done for.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Born Done Moment You

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Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Attention Being Cannot Entire Fail Give Husband Husbands Job Many Why

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There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Added Aware Brain Emotion Experience Felt Force Knowledge May Must Ours Soul Truth Until Without

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Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Approximately Average Being Culture Does Exist He Man Old Old Man Person Read Sin Social Supposed Surely Very Who Wonder I Wonder

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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

~Arnold Bennett

Topics: Anything Clever Does Far Like Mother She Too Understand

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: May 27th, 1867

Died: March 27th, 1931

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