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.
ELBERT HUBBARDDo not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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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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It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Growth is often a painful process.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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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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Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you by those who have a personal interest in keeping you in ignorance.
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Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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