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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.

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
Philosopher
Publisher
Writer
Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
Ali Baba
Fra Elbertus
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Cultivate
Emotion
Noise
Waiting
Emotions
Attention
Lows
Words
Wait
Habitually
Speak
Communication
Dynamite
Waste
Quietness
Speech
Charged

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