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Arthur Helps Quotes

«Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.»
Author: Arthur Helps (Historian, Novelist) | Keywords: hostage
«He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.»
«Experience is the extract of suffering.»
«Vague injurious reports are no men's lies, but all men's carelesness.»
Author: Arthur Helps (Historian, Novelist) | Keywords: reports, vague
«The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.»
«The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.»
«A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.»
Author: Arthur Helps (Historian, Novelist) | About: Affection | Keywords: mixture, recipes
«What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America»
«An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports»
Author: Arthur Helps (Historian, Novelist) | About: Belief, Mankind | Keywords: official, reports
«Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us»

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