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Elbert Hubbards Scrap Book

Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book containing the inspired and inspiring selections gathered during a life time of discriminating reading for his own use WHEN Elbert Hubbard was storing up in his Scrap Book the fruits of other men's genius, he did not contemplate a volume for publication. He was merely gathering spiritual provisions for his own refreshment and delectation. To glance at the pages of his Scrap Book is to realize how far and wide he pursued the quest, into what scented rose gardens of Poetry, and up what steep slopes of Thought. To Alpine Valleys of classical literature it led him, and through forests and swamps of contemporary writing. For him it was the quest that mattered, it was the quest he loved. The Reader will remember Keats' dream of "a very pleasant life." "I had an idea that a Man might pass a very pleasant life in this manner: Let him on a certain day read a certain page of full Poesy or distilled Prose, and let him wander with it, and muse upon it, and reflect from it, and dream upon it: until it becomes stale--But when will it do so? Never--When a man has arrived at a certain ripeness in intellect any one grand and spiritual passage serves him as a starting-pos

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