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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
Too often the reformer has been one who caused the rich to band themselves against the poor.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
I believe more in the goodness of bad people than i do in the badness of good people.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
If we ever damned it will not be because we have loved too much, but because we have loved too little.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
Every spirit makes his own house, but as afterwards the house confines its spirit, you had better build well.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
A Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)
"Should we have an Eleventh Commandment?" asked a youth of the Greatest Living Actress. "Most assuredly, no - we have ten too many now!" answered the divine Sara.
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)