The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
Arthur Helps Quotes
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
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| Birth: | 10th July, 1813 |
| Death: | 7th March, 1875 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Historian, Writer |
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Sir Arthur Helps was born in Streatham in South London. He was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, coming out thirty-first wrangler in the mathematical tripos in 1835.
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