“A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.”
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Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English novelist, playwright, and journalist, whose novels and plays generally reflected middle-class life in north Staffordshire. He was born in Hanley, Staffordshire (which is now Stoke-on-Trent), the son of a solicitor. He was educated in Newcastle-under-Lyme. After school, he worked for his father, and in his spare time he was a journalist. At age twenty-one, he moved to London to work as a solicitor's clerk. In 1889 he won a writing competition in *Tit-Bits* magazine and decided to become a full-time journalist. In 1894, he became assistant editor of the periodical *Woman*, for which he also began writing serial fiction. His first novel, *A Man from the North*, was published in 1898, the same year he became the editor of *Woman*. In 1900 he left the magazine and moved to Hockliffe, Bedfordshire, to become a full-time writer. In 1903 he moved to join the artist community in Paris, where he wrote several novels and plays. In 1908 he published *The Old Wives' Tale*, which was a best-seller. He visited to America in 1911 on a much-publicized trip. His excellent detective fiction includes *The Loot of Cities* (1905), six stories about Cecil Thorold, a rogue-detective millionaire "in search of joy' and not above blackmail and theft to corral his criminals. [Leslie S. Klinger, *In the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes* (2011)] During World War I he was Director of Propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information. He refused a knighthood in 1918. In 1922 he separated from his French wife and fell in love with the actress Dorothy Cheston, with whom he stayed for the rest of his life. He died of typhoid at his home in London in 1931.
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“A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.”
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“No matter what has happened, always behave as if nothing had happened.”
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“The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them.”
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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.”
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“Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.”
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“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 o...”
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“The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.”
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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.”
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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...”
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“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the sou...”
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“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
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“If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.”
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“A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.”
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“The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.”
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“A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.”
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“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.”
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“Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.”
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“To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living...”
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