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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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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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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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It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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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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