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The proper, wise balancingof one's whole life may depend upon thefeasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.Arnold Bennett
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Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.Arnold Bennett
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Ardour in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing. It cries out loudly for employment; you can't satisfy it at first; it wants more and more; it is eager to move mountains and divert the course of rivers. It isn't content till it perspires. And then, too often, when it feels the perspiration on its brow, it wearies all of a sudden and dies, without even putting itself to the trouble of saying, "I've had enough of this. .Arnold Bennett
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You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instrumentsproducing a confused agreeable massof sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.Arnold Bennett
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Without the power to concentrate thatis to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence.Arnold Bennett
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The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.Arnold Bennett
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And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in that mysterious brain is patent.Arnold Bennett