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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

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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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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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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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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 apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.
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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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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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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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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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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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