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The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.
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
Elbert Hubbard
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
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Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
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The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
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It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
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