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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
Arthur Helps
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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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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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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
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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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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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They tell us that Pity is akin to Love if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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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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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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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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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
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Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment but they are a present pleasure.
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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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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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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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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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