I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
ELBERT HUBBARDAnyone 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.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Men are only as great as they are kind.
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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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Failure — The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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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 find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
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Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
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The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
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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.
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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.
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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