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~ Sir Arthur Helps Quotes ~
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Sir Arthur Helps  Quotes


An English writer and dean of the Privy Council, youngest son of Thomas Helps, a London merchant, was born in Streatham in South London.
Sir Arthur Helps, KCB, DCL (10 July 1813 – 7 March 1875) was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council, youngest son of Thomas Helps, a London merchant, was born in Streatham in South London.

Here are some famous quotes by Sir Arthur Helps.




Experience is the extract of suffering.
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« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2015, 02:02:25 PM »
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
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« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2015, 02:03:04 PM »
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
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« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2015, 02:03:29 PM »
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away.
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« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2015, 02:03:56 PM »
If you would understand your own age read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
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« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2015, 02:04:23 PM »
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
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« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2015, 02:04:50 PM »
No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.
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« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2015, 02:05:17 PM »
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character nor render their purposes indistinct.
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« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2015, 02:05:43 PM »
The living together for three long rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.
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« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2015, 02:06:41 PM »
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits dinners concerts plays speeches pleadings essays sermons are too long. Pleasure and business labour equally under this defect or as I should rather say this fatal superabundance.
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