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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.

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
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.
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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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The heroic man does not pose he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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