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Kin Hubbard
Age: 62 †
Born: 1868
Born: September 1
Died: 1930
Died: December 26
Cartoonist
Humorist
Journalist
Bellefontaine
Ohio
Frank McKinney Hubbard
Thinking
Sarcasm
Listeners
Sarcastic
Usually
Silence
Else
Something
Good
Listener

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
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I never saw an athletic girl that thought she was strong enough to do indoor work.
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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
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No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
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It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
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I'm sorry to inform you that your 50 year warranty has expired on your back, knees, and memory. Luckily your lifetime warranty on your heart is still in effect. Of course, that becomes void and expires when you do.
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Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
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Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
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Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.
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In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.
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Never tell the box-office man that you can't hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can't see either.
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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
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The man who says I may be wrong, but-- does not believe there can be any such possibility.
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Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
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As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
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If at first you do succeed don't take any more chances.
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Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
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