All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
ELBERT HUBBARDA retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
More Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
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The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary
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If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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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 fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.
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Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.
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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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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
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Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
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I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.
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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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