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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... facts , and then be told that such superstition is essential to morality . -Sir Leslie Stephen . " An Autumn Song , " by ... fact that there could be no hive unless the bees worked as a colony and on the lines of mutual aid . -Robert ...
... facts , and then be told that such superstition is essential to morality . -Sir Leslie Stephen . " An Autumn Song , " by ... fact that there could be no hive unless the bees worked as a colony and on the lines of mutual aid . -Robert ...
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... facts , who makes up his decision on what he has seen . He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic . There is always a reason , in the man , for his good or bad fortune ; and so , in making money . Men talk as it there were ...
... facts , who makes up his decision on what he has seen . He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic . There is always a reason , in the man , for his good or bad fortune ; and so , in making money . Men talk as it there were ...
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... fact that it is work makes it precious . Darwin could work only half an hour at a time ; yet in many diligent half - hours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy . Green , the historian , tells us that the world is moved not only by ...
... fact that it is work makes it precious . Darwin could work only half an hour at a time ; yet in many diligent half - hours he laid anew the foundations of philosophy . Green , the historian , tells us that the world is moved not only by ...
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... fact of our life , long before it became a modern and insipid sentiment . Only we have been brothers in slavery and torment , brothers in ignorance and its perdition , brothers in disease and war and want , brothers in prosti- tution ...
... fact of our life , long before it became a modern and insipid sentiment . Only we have been brothers in slavery and torment , brothers in ignorance and its perdition , brothers in disease and war and want , brothers in prosti- tution ...
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... fact that the wealth of a nation , the character of its people , the quality and permanence of its institutions are all dependent upon sound and sufficient agricultural foundation . Not armies or navies or commerce or diversity of ...
... fact that the wealth of a nation , the character of its people , the quality and permanence of its institutions are all dependent upon sound and sufficient agricultural foundation . Not armies or navies or commerce or diversity of ...
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