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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
Philosopher
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Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
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The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.
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Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
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A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
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Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
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An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
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Every life is its own excuse for being.
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There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.
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Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.
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If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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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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Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
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No man ever did or can do a great work alone.
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The heroic man does not pose he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
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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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