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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
Tragedies
William Dean Howells

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Friends and Friendship
Tehyi Hsieh

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Failure
Elbert Hubbard

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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Memory
Elbert Hubbard

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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
Charity
Elbert Hubbard

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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Habit
Elbert Hubbard

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
Failure
Elbert Hubbard

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
Freedom
Elbert Hubbard

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
Friends and Friendship
Elbert Hubbard

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If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
Quality
Elbert Hubbard

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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Elbert Hubbard

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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Ability
Elbert Hubbard

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
Love
Elbert Hubbard

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
Money
Elbert Hubbard

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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today
Preparation
Elbert Hubbard

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The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
Mistakes
Elbert Hubbard

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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Work
Elbert Hubbard

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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Ideas
Elbert Hubbard

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The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Silence
Elbert Hubbard

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The man who has no more problems to solve, is out of the game.
Problems
Elbert Hubbard

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The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
Gambling
Elbert Hubbard

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The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
Juries
Elbert Hubbard

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The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Teachers and Teaching
Elbert Hubbard

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There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
Pride
Elbert Hubbard

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What people need and what they want may be very different.
Conflict
Elbert Hubbard

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun