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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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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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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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Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.
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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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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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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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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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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.
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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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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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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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The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.
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