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“The more truth you can get into any business, the better. Let the other side know the defects of yours, let them know how you are to be satisfied, let there be as little to be found as possible (I should say nothing), and if your business be an honest one, it will be best tended in this way.”

Arthur Helps

‘Truth’, Chapter I.
Friends in Council (First Series), (1847),

Truth , Way , Business

“The envious man desires some good which another possesses; the jealous man would often be content to be without the good so that that other did not possess it.”

Arthur Helps

Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms. (1871), p.31.

“The knowledge of others which experience gives us, is of slight value when compared with that which we obtain from having proved the inconstancy of our own desires.”

Arthur Helps

Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd. 1901, p.26.

Knowledge

“A very useful book might be written with the sole object of advising what parts of what books should be read. It should not be a book of elegant extracts, but should merely refer to the passages which are advised to be read. It might also indicate what are the chief works upon any given subject. For example, take rent; the important passages in Adam Smith, Ricardo, Jones, Mill, and other writers, should be referred to.”

Arthur Helps

Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms. (1871), p. 37

Books , Reading , Parting