One Bite At A Time

"The truth is, you do not really believe that you cannot alter yourself."

The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett

"One of the central secrets of efficient daily living is to leave our daily companions alone a great deal more than we do, and attend to ourselves."

The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett

"The foregoing is meant to be a description of what happens when a man passes through the incendiary experience known as 'losing his temper.' "

The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett

"Try this experiment. Say: 'Oh, you little darling, you sweet pet, you entirely charming creature!' to a baby or a dog; but roar these delightful epithets in the tone of saying: 'You infernal little nuisance! If I hear another sound I'll break every bone in your body!'"

The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett

MUSIC

Golly Gee by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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"Is it in sitting ecstatic over Shelley, Shakespeare, or Herbert Spencer, solitary in my room of a night, that I am 'improving myself' and learning to live?"

The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett

"Even your two-year-old babe may defy you by the instinctive force of its personality."

The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett

"You say: 'The fact is, I know it's absurd to grumble. But I'm like that. I've tried to stop it, and I can't!' "

The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett

"In the matter of its own special activities the brain is usually undisciplined and unreliable."

The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett

"In the first place you were not born 'like that,' you have lapsed to that. And in the second place your brain is not yourself."

The Human Machine by Arnold Bennett