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.
ELBERT HUBBARDWe are punished by our sins, not for them.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.
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Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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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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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.
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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 reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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As we grow better, we meet better people.
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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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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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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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Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
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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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A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
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