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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
Age: 58 †
Born: 1856
Born: June 19
Died: 1915
Died: May 7
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Bloomington
Illinois
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