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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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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.
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It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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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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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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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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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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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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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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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
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