Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
ELBERT HUBBARDBusiness is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.
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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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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody – benefiting humanity – and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this.
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.
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We work to become, not to acquire.
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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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