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

Arthur Helps

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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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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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It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
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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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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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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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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 takes a great man to make a great listener
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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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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 apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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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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What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
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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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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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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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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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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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