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ARNOLD BENNETT Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan
ARNOLD BENNETT The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to ...
ARNOLD BENNETT Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well ...
ARNOLD BENNETT Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
ARNOLD BENNETT One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.
DAN BENNETT A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activ...
ARNOLD BENNETT The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another.
DAN BENNETT Be positive. Be true. Be kind.
ROY BENNETT Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.
ROY BENNETT Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love—be there for others�...
ROY BENNETT If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others whereve...
ROY BENNETT A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.
ROY BENNETT Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.
ROY BENNETT Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity.
ROY BENNETT We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
ALAN BENNETT A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.
BO BENNETT I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, wi...
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