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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
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
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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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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell joy consists in forgetting life.
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It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
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Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!
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When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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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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Postponement: The father of failure.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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