Quote by Arnold Bennett
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Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgins lot. – Arnold Bennett

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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. – Arnold Bennett

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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row. – Arnold Bennett

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Journalists say a thing that they know isnt true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. – Arnold Bennett

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To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals. – Don Schrader

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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Bread-Winner

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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs less. – Brendan Francis, Playboy, 1985

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Sex is emotion in motion. – Mae West

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