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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.

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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
Deceived
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Men
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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
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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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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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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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It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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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 sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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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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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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Experience is the extract of suffering.
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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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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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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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