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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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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
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War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.
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Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
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Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
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The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.
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