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 19
If you are idle or sick or poor , however hard it may be to diminish your wants , it will be harder to augment your means . If you are active and prosperous or health , it may be young or in good easier for ...
If you are idle or sick or poor , however hard it may be to diminish your wants , it will be harder to augment your means . If you are active and prosperous or health , it may be young or in good easier for ...
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... or be merely potentially a child - bearer , who could look down upon a battlefield covered with slain , but the thought would rise in her , " So many mother's sons ! So many young bodies brought into the world to lie there !
... or be merely potentially a child - bearer , who could look down upon a battlefield covered with slain , but the thought would rise in her , " So many mother's sons ! So many young bodies brought into the world to lie there !
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The children of the Ghetto possess all the qualities which make for noble manhood and womanhood ; but the Ghetto itself , like an infuriated tigress turning on its young , turns upon and destroys all these qualities , blots out the ...
The children of the Ghetto possess all the qualities which make for noble manhood and womanhood ; but the Ghetto itself , like an infuriated tigress turning on its young , turns upon and destroys all these qualities , blots out the ...
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old . -Oliver Wendell Holmes . F we were to single out the men who from Page 50 ELBERT HUBBARD'S.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old . -Oliver Wendell Holmes . F we were to single out the men who from Page 50 ELBERT HUBBARD'S.
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There are young men who do not work , but the country is not proud of them . It does not even know their names ; it only speaks of them as old So - and - So's boys . Nobody likes them ; the great , busy world does n't know they are here ...
There are young men who do not work , but the country is not proud of them . It does not even know their names ; it only speaks of them as old So - and - So's boys . Nobody likes them ; the great , busy world does n't know they are here ...
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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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