Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use, Volume 1A collection of more than seven hundred quotations from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. |
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There ain't nothing to tell except everybody has been awful kind to me . It's fine to have people so kind to me . But I'd rather if they'd try to understand what this strike business means to all of us workers -this strike we've won and ...
There ain't nothing to tell except everybody has been awful kind to me . It's fine to have people so kind to me . But I'd rather if they'd try to understand what this strike business means to all of us workers -this strike we've won and ...
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Jo O O be honest , to be kind , to earn a little , and to spend a little less , to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence , to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered , to keep a few friends ...
Jo O O be honest , to be kind , to earn a little , and to spend a little less , to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence , to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered , to keep a few friends ...
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The water dashing there as in a kind of agony , against those rocks , you can not hear . The mighty distance lays the finger of silence on its white lips . You are oppressed by a sense of danger . It is as though the vastness would soon ...
The water dashing there as in a kind of agony , against those rocks , you can not hear . The mighty distance lays the finger of silence on its white lips . You are oppressed by a sense of danger . It is as though the vastness would soon ...
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For every man , that religion is good which makes him gentle , upright and kind . But to govern mankind is a difficult task . The ideal is very high and the earth is very low . Outside the sterile province of philosophy , what we meet ...
For every man , that religion is good which makes him gentle , upright and kind . But to govern mankind is a difficult task . The ideal is very high and the earth is very low . Outside the sterile province of philosophy , what we meet ...
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In Mr. Armour's enormous meatfactory , for instance , there are endless by - products , from the pigtails which are dried and sold as a delicacy , to the hair of animals made into a powerful , valuable kind of rope .
In Mr. Armour's enormous meatfactory , for instance , there are endless by - products , from the pigtails which are dried and sold as a delicacy , to the hair of animals made into a powerful , valuable kind of rope .
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| Title | Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use, Volume 1 Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book: Containing the Inspired and Inspiring Selections, Gathered During a Life Time of Discriminating Reading for His Own Use, Elbert Hubbard |
| Author | Elbert Hubbard |
| Compiled by | Elbert Hubbard |
| Contributor | Wm. H. Wise & Co |
| Publisher | W.H. Wise & Company, 1923 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2022 |
| Length | 228 pages |
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