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Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

Kin Hubbard

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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
Optimist
Optimism
Count
Positive
Inspirational
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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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Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.
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Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
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It's the good loser who finally loses out.
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Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
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A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
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Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower.
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All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em have it the problem o' keepin' 'em from gitten' it would be greatly simplified
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Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
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Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
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The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
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When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done
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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
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Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
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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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We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.
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There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.
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It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
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It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.
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I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.
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