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Every life is its own excuse for being.

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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
Ali Baba
Fra Elbertus
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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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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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The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
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All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men all gentlemen all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
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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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Grammar is the grave of letters.
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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.
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