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 10
You must not say that you will be a gentleman and limit your intercourse to this class or that class ; or that you will be a virtuous person and generalize about the affections from a single instance unless , indeed , you have the rare ...
You must not say that you will be a gentleman and limit your intercourse to this class or that class ; or that you will be a virtuous person and generalize about the affections from a single instance unless , indeed , you have the rare ...
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Let me be an unusual person because of that simplicity of heart and that lovableness of nature that I learn from Thee . HAT is the law of nature ? Is it to know that my security and that of my family , all my amusements and pleasures ...
Let me be an unusual person because of that simplicity of heart and that lovableness of nature that I learn from Thee . HAT is the law of nature ? Is it to know that my security and that of my family , all my amusements and pleasures ...
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There is no perfect statesman , or poet , or artist , but the virtues of many persons in each one of these great pursuits become detached , and like stardust , they form a new and perfect star in the expanse of thought .
There is no perfect statesman , or poet , or artist , but the virtues of many persons in each one of these great pursuits become detached , and like stardust , they form a new and perfect star in the expanse of thought .
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I T is a curious reflection that the ordinary private person who collects objects of a modest luxury has nothing about him so old as his books . If a wave of the rod made everything around him disappear that did not exist a century ago ...
I T is a curious reflection that the ordinary private person who collects objects of a modest luxury has nothing about him so old as his books . If a wave of the rod made everything around him disappear that did not exist a century ago ...
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In that fiction of the English Smollett , it is true , the final Cessation of War is perhaps prophetically shadowed forth ; where the two Natural Enemies , in person , take each a Tobacco - pipe , filled with Brimstone ; light the same ...
In that fiction of the English Smollett , it is true , the final Cessation of War is perhaps prophetically shadowed forth ; where the two Natural Enemies , in person , take each a Tobacco - pipe , filled with Brimstone ; light the same ...
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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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