Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English novelist.
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“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
Arnold Bennett
“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 soul.”
“Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment”
“We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.”
“The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature”
“Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.”
“It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality”
“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”
“Good taste is better than bad taste but bad taste is better than no taste”
“It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.”