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It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
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Be patient with the boys - you are dealing with soul-stuff.
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What others say of me matters little what I myself say and do matters much.
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Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
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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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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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