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Men are only as great as they are kind.

Elbert Hubbard

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
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Answer Himself Lost Man Name
If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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Busy Kind Man Time Work
What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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Call God Himself Ideas Justice Man
The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.
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Business Cooperation Person Value
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
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Credit Friendship High
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Act Genius Power Right Time
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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Ability Forget Goodness Greatness Memories
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.
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Conclusion Ignorance Personal Right Thinking Yourself
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Alive Death Inspirational Life Serious Yourself
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
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Easy Learning Provide Yourself
Everything comes too late for those who only wait.
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Late Patience Speed Wait
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
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Exercise Fear Life Mental Poison Pollution
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
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Effort Failure Glory Hope Persistence Success
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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Blame Forgiveness Hate Idol Yourself
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
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Believe Effort Faith True Yourself
People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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