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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Such at least is the purpose to which the book is dedicated ; such is the pious hope of Elbert Hubbard's literary executors . THE PUBLISHERS . HERE is an ancient legend which tells us that when. FOREWORD ...
Such at least is the purpose to which the book is dedicated ; such is the pious hope of Elbert Hubbard's literary executors . THE PUBLISHERS . HERE is an ancient legend which tells us that when. FOREWORD ...
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HERE is an ancient legend which tells us that when a man first achieved a most notable deed he wished to explain to his tribe what he had done . As soon as he began to speak , however , he was smitten with dumbness , he lacked words ...
HERE is an ancient legend which tells us that when a man first achieved a most notable deed he wished to explain to his tribe what he had done . As soon as he began to speak , however , he was smitten with dumbness , he lacked words ...
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And the Jungfrau says to its neighbor : " What news hast thou to tell ? Thou canst see better . - What is going on there below ? " ... Several thousand years pass by like one minute . And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply : " Dense ...
And the Jungfrau says to its neighbor : " What news hast thou to tell ? Thou canst see better . - What is going on there below ? " ... Several thousand years pass by like one minute . And the Finsteraarhorn rumbles in reply : " Dense ...
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... he may deal ' em from the bottom of the deck and drink beer until he can't tell a silver dollar from a circular saw , and still be an infinitely better man than the cowardly little humbug who is all suavity in society but who makes ...
... he may deal ' em from the bottom of the deck and drink beer until he can't tell a silver dollar from a circular saw , and still be an infinitely better man than the cowardly little humbug who is all suavity in society but who makes ...
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I want to tell you about the next one - and the next . I wish very much I could make you understand about the strikes that are coming . 66 ... 66 Perhaps there's some of you never thought much about strikes till now . Well .
I want to tell you about the next one - and the next . I wish very much I could make you understand about the strikes that are coming . 66 ... 66 Perhaps there's some of you never thought much about strikes till now . Well .
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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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