The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

Quote by Arnold Bennett

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The price of justice is eternal publicity.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

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...

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...

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...

A sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to...

A sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to...

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.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best...

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best...

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that...

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that...

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

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

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...

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...

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by...

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by...

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell,...

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell,...

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

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

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly...

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly...

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...

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...

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will...

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will...

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck...

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck...