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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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Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
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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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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
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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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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
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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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Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment but they are a present pleasure.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
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The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.
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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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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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