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A person born with an instinct for poverty.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
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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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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
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Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
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Every life is its own excuse for being.
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Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.
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Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
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