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Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
Journalist
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Bloomington
Illinois
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If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost you can still call him vile names.
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