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A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

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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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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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A good front is half the battle in love or war.
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Theology is Classified Superstition.
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We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
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The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.
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When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
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