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Elbert Hubbard
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Elbert Hubbard?
→ A work of art is never finished, only abandoned.
→ I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you never can read his prescription.
→ Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
→ Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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Pick the quote attributed to Elbert Hubbard.
→ Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
→ The first time my husband asked me for an aspirin and a glass of water I knew exactly what to do. I phoned my mother for the recipe.
→ Early to bed early to rise and you will meet very few prominent people.
→ This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
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Select the quotation attributed to Elbert Hubbard.
→ Good humor makes all things tolerable.
→ If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
→ Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
→ Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
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One of these may be attributed to Elbert Hubbard. Which one?
→ Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear and man from all sides.
→ There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
→ There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.
→ The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
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Which one of these belongs to Elbert Hubbard?
→ Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
→ A great success is made up of an aggregation of little ones. These finally form a whole.
→ It is only reason that teaches silence. The heart teaches us to speak.
→ To love early and marry late is to hear a lark singing at dawn, and at night to eat it roasted for supper.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Elbert Hubbard?
→ How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
→ There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
→ Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
→ Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Elbert Hubbard.
→ In youth we learn; in age we understand.
→ He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
→ I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
→ Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Elbert Hubbard. Which one?
→ Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
→ Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
→ I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.
→ Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Elbert Hubbard?
→ We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
→ Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
→ The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant – and let the air out of the tires.
→ I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Elbert Hubbard.
→ Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
→ Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
→ Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
→ A friend is someone who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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Looks like Elbert Hubbard is the author of one of these.
→ Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
→ Without music, life would be a mistake.
→ Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
→ Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Elbert Hubbard.
→ The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
→ You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
→ One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
→ Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
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Which one should be attributed to Elbert Hubbard?
→ I only write when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes at nine every morning.
→ The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
→ Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
→ The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Elbert Hubbard?
→ We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
→ Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
→ Nothing is more unfair than to judge the men of the past by the ideas of the present.
→ The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Select the quote belonging to Elbert Hubbard.
→ Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
→ The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
→ A great success is made up of an aggregation of little ones. These finally form a whole.
→ It is the weak man who urges compromise — never the strong man.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Elbert Hubbard.
→ I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
→ The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
→ One man that has a mind and knows it, can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
→ There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Elbert Hubbard.
→ There is no failure except in no longer trying.
→ The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
→ Nothing has been more dearly bought than the minute portion of human reason and feeling of liberty upon which we now pride ourselves.
→ Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Identify the quotation belonging to Elbert Hubbard?
→ In summer, the song sings itself.
→ Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
→ The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
→ This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
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