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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Arthur Helps

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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
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Suffering
Experience

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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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It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
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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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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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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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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
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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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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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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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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
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