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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Page 7
I threw open the window , and , by means of a napkin , began chasing the insect toward it ; but the drone persisted in flying in the opposite direction . I then tried to capture it by throwing the napkin over it .
I threw open the window , and , by means of a napkin , began chasing the insect toward it ; but the drone persisted in flying in the opposite direction . I then tried to capture it by throwing the napkin over it .
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He only He only does wrong as a means to an end , which he always represents to himself as a right end . The case is exactly reversed with a villain ; and it is my melancholy duty to add that we sometimes find it hard to avoid a cynical ...
He only He only does wrong as a means to an end , which he always represents to himself as a right end . The case is exactly reversed with a villain ; and it is my melancholy duty to add that we sometimes find it hard to avoid a cynical ...
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D0 D0 WO contrary laws stand today opposed : one a law of blood and death , which , inventing daily new means of combat , obliges the nations to be ever prepared for battle ; the other a law of peace , of labor , of salvation , which ...
D0 D0 WO contrary laws stand today opposed : one a law of blood and death , which , inventing daily new means of combat , obliges the nations to be ever prepared for battle ; the other a law of peace , of labor , of salvation , which ...
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It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave . 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 teaching them to behave as they do not behave . 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 .
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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 the ones that are coming . " I come out of the workhouse today , and they tell me a lady wants to give me money ...
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 the ones that are coming . " I come out of the workhouse today , and they tell me a lady wants to give me money ...
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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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