Elbert Hubbard's Scrap BookA vast collection of more than seven hundred quotations meant to inspire genius, this scrapbook contains favored sayings of the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century essayist Elbert Hubbard. Here the words of history's and literature's greats from William Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Marcus Aurelius, Charlotte Brontï¿1/2, and Dante to Charles Dickens, Thomas Jefferson, Pythagoras, and Oscar Wilde meet. Originally published posthumously as a tribute to Hubbard, this compilation includes the musings of George Washington on jealousy, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley on love, Plato on man, and hundreds of others. The universe's most momentous questions about life and success, as well as love, humanity, nature, and war, unfold in memorable passages. Indexes by author, topic, and poem serve for easy reference. |
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... honor and of cavaliers I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult . But the age of Chivalry is gone . That of sophisters , economists , and cal- culators has ...
... honor of Massa- chusetts , for their own honor as Bos- ton boys , to respect liberty of speech . But they still laughed and sang and danced , and were proof against every appeal . At last a man sud- denly arose from among themselves ...
... honor , and recom- mend me to them as I continually stand recommend- ed to you . Salute all friends and rela- tives for meand par- ticularly Ridolfo , who has so much SEEM to know Cellini first of all as a man possessed by intense ...