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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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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Bloomington
Illinois
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To supply a thought is mental massage but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
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The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
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It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
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I believe the Universe is planned for good.
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Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
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The man who has no problems is out of the game.
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Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown
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Money never made a fool of anybody it only shows them up.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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It is only life and love that give love and life.
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Postponement: The father of failure.
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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
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Live truth instead of professing it.
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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