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Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Elbert Hubbard
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Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.
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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
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War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.
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A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.
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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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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost you can still call him vile names.
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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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Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
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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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The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
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Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
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Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
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Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.
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Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.
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Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
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