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Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
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 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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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
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Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown
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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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Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
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A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you
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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
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One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
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You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.
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Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion
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All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men all gentlemen all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
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