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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost you can still call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
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The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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When trouble comes, wise men take to their work weak men take to the woods.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
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Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.
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Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
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I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.
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When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
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I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
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