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    John Jacob Astor
    John Jacob Astor
    John Jacob Astor
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    John Jacob Astor

    By Elbert Hubbard

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJun 1, 2004
    John Jacob Astor
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    Elbert Hubbard

    Elbert Hubbard was born in 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois. He was a writer, publisher, and artist who was an influential member of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His best-known work is the short publication A Message to Garcia.

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      John Jacob Astor - Elbert Hubbard

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of John Jacob Astor, by Elbert Hubbard

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: John Jacob Astor

      Author: Elbert Hubbard

      Posting Date: July 20, 2008 [EBook #412] Release Date: January, 1996

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHN JACOB ASTOR ***

      Produced by Charles Keller

      LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GREAT BUSINESS MEN

      BY

      ELBERT HUBBARD

      JOHN J. ASTOR

      The man who makes it the habit of his life to go to bed at nine o'clock, usually gets rich and is always reliable. Of course, going to bed does not make him rich—I merely mean that such a man will in all probability be up early in the morning and do a big day's work, so his weary bones put him to bed early. Rogues do their work at night. Honest men work by day. It's all a matter of habit, and good habits in America make any man rich. Wealth is a result of habit.

      —JOHN JACOB ASTOR

      LITTLE JOURNEYS

      Victor Hugo says, When you open a school, you close a prison.

      This seems to require a little explanation. Victor Hugo did not have in mind a theological school, nor yet a young ladies' seminary, nor an English boarding-school, nor a military academy, and least of all a parochial institute. What he was thinking of was a school where people—young and old—were taught to be self-respecting, self-reliant and efficient—to care for themselves, to help bear the burdens of the world, to assist themselves by adding to the happiness of others.

      Victor Hugo fully realized that the only education that serves is the one that increases human efficiency, not the one that retards it. An education for honors, ease, medals, degrees, titles, position—immunity—may tend to exalt the individual ego, but it weakens the race and its gain on the whole is nil.

      Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service, gets great returns. Action and reaction are equal, and the radiatory power of the planets balances their attraction. The love you keep is the love you give away.

      A bumptious colored person wearing a derby tipped over one eye, and a cigar in his mouth pointing to the northwest, walked into a hardware store and remarked, Lemme see your razors.

      The clerk smiled pleasantly and asked, Do you want a razor to shave with?

      Naw, said the colored person, —for social purposes.

      An education for social purposes is n't of any more use than a razor purchased for a like use. An education which merely fits a person to prey on society, and occasionally slash it

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