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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Perhaps in the eyes of God a drone is as valuable as a man , and without any doubt it is more valuable than a prince . I threw open the window , and , by means of a napkin , began chasing the insect toward it ; but the drone persisted ...
Perhaps in the eyes of God a drone is as valuable as a man , and without any doubt it is more valuable than a prince . I threw open the window , and , by means of a napkin , began chasing the insect toward it ; but the drone persisted ...
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66 You will say , perhaps , that if this be so , there should be no philosophers ; and perhaps you are right ; but though I make you this handsome concession , I do not defer to you to the extent of ceasing to exist .
66 You will say , perhaps , that if this be so , there should be no philosophers ; and perhaps you are right ; but though I make you this handsome concession , I do not defer to you to the extent of ceasing to exist .
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XCEPT a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book ! a message to us from the deadfrom human souls we never saw , who lived , perhaps thousands of miles away . And yet these , in those little sheets of paper , speak to us ...
XCEPT a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book ! a message to us from the deadfrom human souls we never saw , who lived , perhaps thousands of miles away . And yet these , in those little sheets of paper , speak to us ...
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66 Perhaps there's some of you never thought much about strikes till now . Well . There's been strikes all the time . I don't believe there's ever been a year when there was n't dozens here in New York .
66 Perhaps there's some of you never thought much about strikes till now . Well . There's been strikes all the time . I don't believe there's ever been a year when there was n't dozens here in New York .
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Each art stands as a monument to a host of idealists who in their own day perhaps toiled hopelessly and amid the sneers of those who were only the children of dust . Music , now so infinite in extent and sweetness , is such a monument .
Each art stands as a monument to a host of idealists who in their own day perhaps toiled hopelessly and amid the sneers of those who were only the children of dust . Music , now so infinite in extent and sweetness , is such a monument .
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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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