How to Live on 24 Hours a Day is a collection of essays by Arnold Bennett about making purposeful use of time. It reflects on daily routines, work, leisure, and small habits that can enrich ordinary life, inviting listeners to consider how they spend their hours.
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Opening of the book
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett PREFACE TO THIS EDITION This preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be, should be read at the end of the book. I have received a large amount of correspondence concerning this small work, and many reviews of it—some of them nearly as long as the book itself—have been printed. But scarcely any of the comment has been adverse. Some people have objected to a frivolity of tone; but as the tone is not, in my opinion, at all frivolous, this objection did not impress me; and had no weightier reproach been put forward I might almost have been persuaded that the volume was flawless! A more serious stricture has, however, been offered—not in the press, but by sundry obviously sincere correspondents—and I must deal with it. A reference to page 43 will show that I anticipated and feared this disapprobation. The sentence
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