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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.
Arthur Helps
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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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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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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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.
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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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