Arthur Helps Quotes

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• Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
• 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…
• Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
• Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
• No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.
• They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
• There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
• Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
• We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.
• It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
• The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
• What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
• The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
• Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
• Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
• Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
• Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
• Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
• The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
• 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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