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Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
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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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
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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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If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived and that instead of railing at the general falseness of mankind, you have first to pronounce judgment on your own jealous tyranny, or on your own weak credulity.
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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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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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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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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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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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Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
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Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
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