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The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
Philosopher
Publisher
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Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
Ali Baba
Fra Elbertus
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Today
Shams
Inspirations
Departed
Tomorrow
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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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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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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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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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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
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Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us.
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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
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