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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Finally it flew the whole length of the apartment , maddened and desperate . " Ah , you tyrant ! " it buzzed . " Despot ! you would deprive me of liberty ! Cruel executioner , why do you not leave me alone ?
Finally it flew the whole length of the apartment , maddened and desperate . " Ah , you tyrant ! " it buzzed . " Despot ! you would deprive me of liberty ! Cruel executioner , why do you not leave me alone ?
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It wafts to us the odor of forest leaves , that hang wilted on the dripping branches , or drop into the stream . Their gorgeous Ꮽ ᏭᏟ Speech is the index of the mind . - Seneca . HE tradition of the stage is a tradition of villains ...
It wafts to us the odor of forest leaves , that hang wilted on the dripping branches , or drop into the stream . Their gorgeous Ꮽ ᏭᏟ Speech is the index of the mind . - Seneca . HE tradition of the stage is a tradition of villains ...
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Enjoyed to their fullest , they leave you hard , wrinkled and miserable . Get all they can give and the hand will be empty , the mind hungry , and the soul shriveled Oratory is an individual accomplishment , and no vicissitudes of ...
Enjoyed to their fullest , they leave you hard , wrinkled and miserable . Get all they can give and the hand will be empty , the mind hungry , and the soul shriveled Oratory is an individual accomplishment , and no vicissitudes of ...
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... though I do not cast my eyes away from troubles , I pack them into as small a compass as I can for myself , and never let them annoy others . - Robert Southey . Come , follow me , and leave the world to its babblings . - Dante .
... though I do not cast my eyes away from troubles , I pack them into as small a compass as I can for myself , and never let them annoy others . - Robert Southey . Come , follow me , and leave the world to its babblings . - Dante .
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It is not teaching the youth the shapes of letters and the tricks of numbers , and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery , and their literature to lust . It means , on the contrary , training them into the perfect ...
It is not teaching the youth the shapes of letters and the tricks of numbers , and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery , and their literature to lust . It means , on the contrary , training them into the perfect ...
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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 |
| Publisher | W.H. Wise & Company, 1923 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2022 |
| Length | 228 pages |
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