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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
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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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One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.
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Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how
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Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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Habit: The great economizer of energy.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
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As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead.
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A good front is half the battle in love or war.
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Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
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