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Live truth instead of professing it.

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
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Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
Ali Baba
Fra Elbertus
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Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.
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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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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
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Real life is in love, laughter, and work.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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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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What others say of me matters little what I myself say and do matters much.
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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
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Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
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A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
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The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
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I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
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