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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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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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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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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
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Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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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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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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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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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
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It takes a great man to make a great listener
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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