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The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.
Elbert Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Bloomington
Illinois
Elbert Hubbard
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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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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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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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Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.
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We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
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