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.

Quote by Arnold Bennett

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The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child...

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child...

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of...

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of...

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain...

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain...

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they...

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they...

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live...

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live...

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces...

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces...

All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to...

All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to...

Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad...

Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad...

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money...

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money...

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money...

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money...

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter...

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter...

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They...

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They...

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but it is even more difficult seriously to...

It is difficult to make a reputation, but it is even more difficult seriously to...

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

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

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being...

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being...

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.