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.
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. - Arnold Bennett
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
- Arnold Bennett
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows… - Arnold Bennett
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows…
It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity. - Arnold Bennett
It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.
As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves. - Arnold Bennett
As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.
You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw. - Arnold Bennett
You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life. - Arnold Bennett
If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.
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
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.
Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live. - Arnold Bennett
Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe. - Arnold Bennett
Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.
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