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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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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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Sir Arthur Helps
Virtues
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Ignorance
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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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Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.
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