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Money never made a fool of anybody it only shows them up.

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
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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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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
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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 heroic man does not pose he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
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