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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Illinois
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There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
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I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
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Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
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I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
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An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
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