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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... writer must always say them , is a cardinal point in training of the Curiorist , and for this reason I believe humorist , for this reason that the writing of advertisements is one of the best courses of instruction through which the man ...
... writing , the craft , out of our stories and essays and poems , and make the reader feel he was face to face with ... writers have it , is quite another . It may , and often does , go with faulty workmanship . It is the choice of words ...
... writing , and he car- ried this dislike to a degree involving positive discour- tesy to others . He received a good many dinner invi- tations and though not what was called a diner - out , was on the other stones ; at fear . disposed to ...