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People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.
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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 would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
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Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
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Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.
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It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
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Arthur Helps
Born:
July 10, 1813
Died:
March 7, 1875
(aged 61)
Bio:
Sir Arthur Helps HonDCL was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle.
Known for:
Friends in Council (1847)
Conversations On War And General Culture
The Life of Las Casas (1868)
The Life of Pizarro (1869)
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