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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
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Bloomington
Illinois
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The cure for grief is motion.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.
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The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
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Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how
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Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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It is only life and love that give love and life.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
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A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.
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