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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Illinois
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
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Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.
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It is only life and love that give love and life.
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If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.
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Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
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Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
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Unleash your TRAVEL BEAST .... explore the world. It's time to begin your next adventure! No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.
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Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
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A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.
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Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
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We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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