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Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
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
Fra Elbertus
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