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If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
Ali Baba
Fra Elbertus
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History: a collection of epitaphs.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
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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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To supply a thought is mental massage but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.
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Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
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One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.
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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
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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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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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Grammar is the grave of letters.
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It is only life and love that give love and life.
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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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Art is not a thing it is a way.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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