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“Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.”

Elbert Hubbard

A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

“It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P. S.: I never inherited any money.”

Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 10.

“To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise — and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.”

Elbert Hubbard

Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 64.

“Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.”

Elbert Hubbard

Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 170.

“Too often the reformer has been one who caused the rich to band themselves against the poor.”

Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 14.

“Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)

“Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.”

Elbert Hubbard

Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 160.

“Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals.
Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village — in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly — the man who can "Carry a Message to Garcia."”

Elbert Hubbard book A Message to Garcia

A Message to Garcia (1899)

“The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.”

Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 10.

“Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=AoxHAAAAYAAJ&q="Philosophy+rests+on+a+proposition+that+whatever+is+is+right+preaching+begins+by+assuming+that+whatever+is+is+wrong"&pg=PA130#v=onepage (October 1897).

“Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=Y4lHAAAAYAAJ&q="Piety+is+the+tin-foil+of+pretense"&pg=RA1-PA115#v=onepage (September 1908).

“Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)

“It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity — of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.”

Elbert Hubbard

"The Sea" in The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard (1916), p. 169.

“Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.”

Elbert Hubbard

A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

“The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)

“Life is a compromise between fate and free will.”

Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 36

“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)

“There is no such thing as success in a bad business.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)

“The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.”

Elbert Hubbard

Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 142.

“The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.”

Elbert Hubbard

The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=b0kLAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+graveyards+are+full+of+people+the+world+could+not+do+without%22&pg=PA190#v=onepage (May 1907)