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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.
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One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.
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Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.
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Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
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Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
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God is good, there is no devil but fear.
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
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The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
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