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Arthur Helps Quotes: Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
         

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.


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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.



To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.



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He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.



Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

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