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An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
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A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.
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I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
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All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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I believe in the Motherhood of God.
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What people need and what they want may be very different.
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