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Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
Philosopher
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Bloomington
Illinois
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost you can still call him vile names.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
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Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.
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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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If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.
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