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Arnold Bennett Biography

Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as the theatre, journalism, propaganda and films.

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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 realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

Believe, Conduct, Inspirational, Mental, Pleasure, Spring

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

Money, Littles, Amusing, Ingenuity, Profitable

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.

Failed, Happiness, Happy, Life, Take

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

Heart, Life, Poor, Poverty, Remain

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

Forget, Heaven, Life, Mean, Prepare, Sake

One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.

Activity, Change, Leg, Men, Sleep, Typical

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

Cease, Echoes, Oneself, Speaking, Write, Writing

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

Aquariums, Efficient, Essential, Living, Mean, Self

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

Change, Discomforts, Drawbacks, Life Changing, Moving On

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

Clever, Mom, Mother, Understand

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

Achievement, Achievements, Friend, Likes, True, True Friend

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Motivational, New Year, Lying, Choose, Moment, Time

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.

Hope, Keep, Long, Media, Say, True

Being a husband is a whole-time job.

Husband, Job, Jobs, Whole

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

Caused, Communication, Ninety, Percent, Tone, Voice

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Firsts, Hurry, Keeps, Organizer, Planning, Unexpected

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

Count, People, Use, War, Years

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

Casting, Casting Off, Memories, Oneself, Scene, Use

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.

Heaven, Inhabitants, Lucifer, Purgatory, Reality, Secret

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

Book, Books, Collect, Let, People

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