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In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Bloomington
Illinois
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.
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Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
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Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.
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Habit: The great economizer of energy.
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.
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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
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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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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
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If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.
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The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
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Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.
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The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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