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Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
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
Elbert Hubbard
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.
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The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.
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When trouble comes, wise men take to their work weak men take to the woods.
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If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
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A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
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Luck is tenacity of purpose.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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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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Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
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Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
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When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
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It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
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Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
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