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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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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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Time is an illusion-to orators.
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The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
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The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.
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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
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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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The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
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