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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... young men's mistresses ; companions for middle age , and old men's nurses ; so that a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will se But yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry ...
... young vulture . The old tactics had been not only overthrown , but scandalized . Who was this Corsican of six - and - twenty years of age ? What meant this splendid ignoramus , who , having everything against him , nothing for him ...
... young mechanics and citizens of my native city , in order to fit them for the towards millions , reception of new ideas , social , me- chanical and scien- tific - hoping thus to economize and expand the intel- lectual as well as the ...