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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
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Bloomington
Illinois
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Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.
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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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All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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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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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost you can still call him vile names.
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When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
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Play needs direction as well as work.
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People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
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Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
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The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
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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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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.
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Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
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