You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

—Elbert Hubbard

About Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora,...

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Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

—Elbert Hubbard

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

—Elbert Hubbard

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

—Elbert Hubbard

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

—Elbert Hubbard

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

—Elbert Hubbard

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More quotations tagged with “friendship”

Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

—Dame Edna Everage

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

—Dale Carnegie

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

—Czech Proverb

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

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