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Life without absorbing occupation is hell joy consists in forgetting life.

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
Elbert Hubbard
Ali Baba
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