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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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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.
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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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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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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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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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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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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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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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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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