Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
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Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.
Elbert Hubbard
Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
Elbert Hubbard
Life is just one damn thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
Elbert Hubbard
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.
Elbert Hubbard
Life is a compromise between fate and free will.
Elbert Hubbard
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
Elbert Hubbard
He never wants anything but what’s right and fair;
only when you come to settle what’s right and fair,
it’s everything that he wants and nothing that you
want. And that’s his idea of a compromise. Give
me the Brown compromise when I’m on his side.
Thomas Hughes