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Arthur Helps Quote

The living together for three long rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

Arthur Helps

The living together for three long rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

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About Arthur Helps

Sir Arthur Helps (10 July 1813 – 7 March 1875) was an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle and an early advocate of animal rights.