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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.
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What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
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The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
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He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.
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Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.
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To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.
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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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