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ARNOLD BENNETT Ultimate Collection: The Old Wives' Tale, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Riceyman Steps, Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women, The Human Machine, Anna of the Five Towns QUOTES

ARNOLD BENNETT Ultimate Collection: The Old Wives' Tale, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Riceyman Steps, Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women, The Human Machine, Anna of the Five Towns QUOTES

1 " If you honestly feel resentful against some one, but, having understood the foolishness of fury, intentionally mask your fury under a persuasive tone, your fury will at once begin to abate. You will be led into a rational train of thought; you will see that after all the object of your resentment has a right to exist, and that he is neither a doormat nor a scoundrel, and that anyhow nothing is to be gained, and much is to be lost, by fury. You will see that fury is unworthy of you. "

― Arnold Bennett , ARNOLD BENNETT Ultimate Collection: The Old Wives' Tale, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Riceyman Steps, Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women, The Human Machine, Anna of the Five Towns

2 " Why did my actions yesterday contradict my reason?' The reply to this question will nearly always be: 'Because at the critical moment I forgot.' The supreme explanation of the abortive results of so many efforts at self-alteration, the supreme explanation of our frequent miserable scurrying into a doctrine of fatalism, is simple forgetfulness. It is not force that we lack, but the skill to remember exactly what our reason would have us do or think at the moment itself. How is this skill to be acquired? It can only be acquired, as skill at games is acquired, by practice; by the training of the organ involved to such a point that the organ acts rightly by instinct instead of wrongly by instinct. There are degrees of success in this procedure, but there is no such phenomenon as complete failure. "

― Arnold Bennett , ARNOLD BENNETT Ultimate Collection: The Old Wives' Tale, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Riceyman Steps, Mental Efficiency and Other Hints to Men and Women, The Human Machine, Anna of the Five Towns