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We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

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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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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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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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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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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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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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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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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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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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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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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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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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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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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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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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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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