There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

About Kin Hubbard

Portrait of Kin Hubbard

Frank McKinney Hubbard (September 1, 1868 – December 26, 1930), better known as Kin Hubbard, was an American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist. His most famous work was for "Abe Martin". Introduced in The Indianapolis News in December 1904, the cartoon appeared six days a week on the back page of...

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If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

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The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

—Horace Walpole

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Penetrate deeply into the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.

—Jean Cocteau

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