WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:52:13 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Helps, Arthur – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Helps, Arthur -- Thoughts in the Cloister and the Cloud(1835) https://wist.info/helps-arthur/35793/ https://wist.info/helps-arthur/35793/#respond Fri, 16 Dec 2016 02:16:55 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=35793 If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.


Arthur Helps (1813-1875) English writer and bureaucrat
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Cloud(1835)
    (Source) ]]> https://wist.info/helps-arthur/35793/feed/ 0 35793 Helps, Arthur -- Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd (1835) https://wist.info/helps-arthur/49835/ https://wist.info/helps-arthur/49835/#respond Fri, 19 Nov 2021 14:58:45 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=49835 It is an error to suppose that no man understands his own character. Most persons know even their failings very well, only they persist in giving them names different from those usually assigned by the rest of the world; and they compensate for this mistake by naming, at first sight, with singular accuracy, those very same failings in others.


Arthur Helps (1813-1875) English writer and bureaucrat
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd (1835)
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