You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.
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.
- 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. - 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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