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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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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
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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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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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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
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The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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To supply a thought is mental massage but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
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Life in abundance comes only through great love.
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Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
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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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Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
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A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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