Quote by Arnold Bennett
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round. – Arnold Bennett

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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. – 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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Sex
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We need a sense of the value of time — that is, of the best way to divide ones time into ones various activities. – Arnold Bennett

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Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
The years that are not more. – Matthew Arnold

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. – George Ade

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Past, the

Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Dont count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it! – Edwin C. Bliss

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Past, the

It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. – Kenneth Auchincloss

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Past, the

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