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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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Sir Arthur Helps
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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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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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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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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I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
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