Mental efficiency : and other hints to men and women / by Arnold Bennett.
- Arnold Bennett
- Date:
- [1911?]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Mental efficiency : and other hints to men and women / by Arnold Bennett. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![idea to avoid the reproach of 4 living and dying without ever really knowing anything about anything ’] came to me of itself from somewhere when I was a small girl. And looking back I fancy that the thought itself spurred me to do something in this world, to get into line with people who did things—people who painted pictures, wrote books, built bridges, or did something beyond the ordinary. This only has seemed to me, all my life since, worth while.” Here I must interject that such a statement is somewhat sweeping. In fact, it sweeps a whole lot of fine and legitimate am- bitions straight into the rubbish heap of the Not-worth-while. I think the writer would wish to modify it. She continues: “ And when the day comes in which I have not done some serious reading, however small the measure, or some writing ... or I have been too sad or dull to notice the brightness of colour of the sun, of grass and flowers, of the sea, or the moonlight on the water, I think the day ill-spent. So I must think the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28123542_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
