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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown
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Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
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There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.
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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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Victory a matter of staying power.
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Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how
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Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
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History: a collection of epitaphs.
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Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
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Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
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