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What people need and what they want may be very different.

Elbert Hubbard

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Fools Limitation Man Wisdom
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

Blame Forgiveness Hate Idol Yourself
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Silence Understand Word Yourself
We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Business Enemy Friendship Money Ourselves
I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Believe Change Light Myself Possible Time
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.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Conclusion Ignorance Personal Right Thinking Yourself
Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Hard Work Pay People
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Happiness Life Yourself
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Ability Rare Recognition Wisdom
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Children Limitation Parents
Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Growth Improvement
I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Author Book Conservation Hold Myself Reading
The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Count Man Reward Risk See
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Exercise Fear Life Mental Poison Pollution
The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Business Cooperation Person Value
Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
ELBERT HUBBARD

Late Patience Speed Wait

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