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A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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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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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
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Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.
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The cure for grief is motion.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
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Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
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The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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Nothing is permanent but change.
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Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.
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It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
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Talent does things tolerably well genius does then intolerably better
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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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I believe the Universe is planned for good.
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The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself and he wants others to be themselves, also.
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