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What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

Arthur Helps

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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
Biographer
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Sir Arthur Helps
Blessing
Perhaps
Greatest
America
Smoking
Discovery

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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.
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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.
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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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