The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
ELBERT HUBBARDPoliticians regard the public as a cow to be milked.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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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.
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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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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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The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
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In order to have friends, you must first be one.
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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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Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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