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Most people like hard work, particularly when they're paying for it.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.
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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
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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.
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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.
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It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
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Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
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Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost you can still call him vile names.
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Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
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