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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 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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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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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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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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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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What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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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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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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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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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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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
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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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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
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