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The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.
Elbert Hubbard -
It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.
Elbert Hubbard
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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.
Elbert Hubbard -
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.
Elbert Hubbard -
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard -
Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village - in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can 'Carry a Message to Garcia.'
Elbert Hubbard -
When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say 'Canary!' - he'll take offense.
Elbert Hubbard -
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
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An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard -
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
Elbert Hubbard -
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.
Elbert Hubbard -
And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.
Elbert Hubbard -
I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.
Elbert Hubbard -
There is no such thing as success in a bad business.
Elbert Hubbard
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.
Elbert Hubbard -
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
Elbert Hubbard -
Life is just one damn thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard -
If you err it is not for me to punish you. We are punished by our sins not for them.
Elbert Hubbard -
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard -
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
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Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
Elbert Hubbard -
Do not go out of your way to do good whenever it comes your way. Men who make a business of doing good to others are apt to hate others in the same occupation. Simply be filled with the thought of good, and it will radiate - you do not have to bother about it, any more than you need trouble about your digestion.
Elbert Hubbard -
Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized.
Elbert Hubbard -
The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.
Elbert Hubbard