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14 Quotes for 'Arnold Bennett' in the Database.
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Arnold Bennett Quotes
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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.
Topic: Being
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Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Topic: Books and Reading
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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.
Topic: Depression
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A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
Topic: Efficiency
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Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend.
Topic: Friends / Friendship
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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.
Topic: Friends / Friendship
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar".
Topic: Inspirational
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I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Topic: Inspirational
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
Topic: Negativity
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All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
Topic: Relationships
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Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
Topic: Taste
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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.
Topic: Worry
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