The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
Arthur Helps Quotes
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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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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