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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.
Arthur Helps
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Arthur Helps
Age: 61 †
Born: 1813
Born: July 10
Died: 1875
Died: March 7
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Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
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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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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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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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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 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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An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
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