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What people need and what they want may be very different.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
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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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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell joy consists in forgetting life.
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I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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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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Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.
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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.
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The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
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You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
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I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
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Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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