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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Is it to know that my security and that of my family , all my amusements and pleasures , are purchased at the expense of misery , deprivation , and suffering to thousands of human beings - by the terror of the gallows ; by the ...
Is it to know that my security and that of my family , all my amusements and pleasures , are purchased at the expense of misery , deprivation , and suffering to thousands of human beings - by the terror of the gallows ; by the ...
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ANAD EN will have , and must have , their pleasures . Social reformers and temperance agitators could not make a greater mistake than by following the example of the Puritans and tabuing all pleasures . They ought to distinguish between ...
ANAD EN will have , and must have , their pleasures . Social reformers and temperance agitators could not make a greater mistake than by following the example of the Puritans and tabuing all pleasures . They ought to distinguish between ...
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Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business , eaten dirt , and sown wild - oats , drifted about the world and taken the wind of all its moods . The love of digging in the ground ( or ...
Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business , eaten dirt , and sown wild - oats , drifted about the world and taken the wind of all its moods . The love of digging in the ground ( or ...
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Is it that Nature , attentive to the preservation of mankind , increases our wishes to live , while she lessens our enjoyments ; and , as she robs the senses of every pleasure , equips imagination in the spoil ?
Is it that Nature , attentive to the preservation of mankind , increases our wishes to live , while she lessens our enjoyments ; and , as she robs the senses of every pleasure , equips imagination in the spoil ?
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It is only in wide public affairs , where money is a moving force toward the general welfare , that the possessor of it can possibly find pleasure , and that EOPLE say to me , Well , Lyeff Nikolaevitch , SCRAP BOOK Page 53.
It is only in wide public affairs , where money is a moving force toward the general welfare , that the possessor of it can possibly find pleasure , and that EOPLE say to me , Well , Lyeff Nikolaevitch , SCRAP BOOK Page 53.
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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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