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"If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living."

Arnold Bennett, English Novelist

Egotism, Interest, Living, Self

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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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"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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"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."

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"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like."

"Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism."

"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."

"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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