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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
Journalist
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Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
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Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
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All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
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Every life is its own excuse for being.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
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Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.
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The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
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Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.
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Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
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Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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