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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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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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Sir Arthur Helps
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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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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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 reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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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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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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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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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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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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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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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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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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