Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English novelist.
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“Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.”
Arnold Bennett
“All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do”
“It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable”
“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.”
“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.”
“Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity”
“Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment”
“The price of justice is eternal publicity”
“The moment you're born you're done for.”
“It is difficult to make a reputation, but it is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made - so faithful is the public”