Arthur Helps Quotes
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
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There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting…
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Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
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Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
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No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.
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They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
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There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
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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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We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.
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It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
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The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
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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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Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
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Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
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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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The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
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A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young…
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