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I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage


Elbert Hubbard

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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
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Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
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GARY F EVANS... Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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A.A. MILNE I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
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Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
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EDWARD EVERETT HALE Endeavor to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gre...
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ELBERT HUBBARD Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
ELBERT HUBBARD When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.
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ELBERT HUBBARD Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.
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ELBERT HUBBARD There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
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ELBERT HUBBARD Laughter is higher than all pain.
ELBERT HUBBARD It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
ELBERT HUBBARD We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
ELBERT HUBBARD Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
ELBERT HUBBARD Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed -- there's so little competition.
ELBERT HUBBARD What people need and what they want may be very different.
ELBERT HUBBARD Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
ELBERT HUBBARD Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
ELBERT HUBBARD Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
ELBERT HUBBARD Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
ELBERT HUBBARD A person born with an instinct for poverty.
ELBERT HUBBARD The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
ELBERT HUBBARD It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.
ELBERT HUBBARD The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
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ELBERT HUBBARD Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
ELBERT HUBBARD To stop sinning suddenly.
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ELBERT HUBBARD Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
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ELBERT HUBBARD The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually afraid you will make one.
ELBERT HUBBARD To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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ELBERT HUBBARD Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
ELBERT HUBBARD A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
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ELBERT HUBBARD Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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ELBERT HUBBARD If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
ELBERT HUBBARD We work to become, not to acquire.
ELBERT HUBBARD A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
ELBERT HUBBARD God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
ELBERT HUBBARD A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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ELBERT HUBBARD To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
ELBERT HUBBARD To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
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ELBERT HUBBARD Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader
ELBERT HUBBARD Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
ELBERT HUBBARD A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives w...
ELBERT HUBBARD To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives.
ELBERT HUBBARD To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.
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ELBERT HUBBARD Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
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ELBERT HUBBARD Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
ELBERT HUBBARD Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
ELBERT HUBBARD When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten ti...
ELBERT HUBBARD Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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ELBERT HUBBARD Live truth instead of professing it.
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ELBERT HUBBARD Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
ELBERT HUBBARD Death: To stop sinning suddenly.
ELBERT HUBBARD The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife.
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ELBERT HUBBARD To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.
ELBERT HUBBARD If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive.
ELBERT HUBBARD Logic is an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.
ELBERT HUBBARD If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
ELBERT HUBBARD Folks who never do any more than they are paid for, never get paid more than they do.
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ELBERT HUBBARD Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the l...
ELBERT HUBBARD Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.
ELBERT HUBBARD Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
ELBERT HUBBARD An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
ELBERT HUBBARD A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.
ELBERT HUBBARD You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think.
ELBERT HUBBARD Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARD Life is just one damned thing after another.
ELBERT HUBBARD He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.
ELBERT HUBBARD God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
ELBERT HUBBARD The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
ELBERT HUBBARD If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
ELBERT HUBBARD Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
ELBERT HUBBARD All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the f...
ELBERT HUBBARD Art is not a thing; it is a way.
ELBERT HUBBARD Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks thin...
ELBERT HUBBARD Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
ELBERT HUBBARD Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously
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