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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

Arthur Helps

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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
Biographer
Historian
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Sir Arthur Helps
Longed
Forgetfulness
Wished
Memory
Memories
Much

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Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
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The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.
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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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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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