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Elbert Hubbard

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I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.


— Elbert Hubbard


#insight #wealth #wisdom #wit #insight

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.


— Elbert Hubbard


#illiteracy #reading #money

Art is not a thing; it is a way.


— Elbert Hubbard


#thing #way

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.


— Elbert Hubbard


#governments #individuals #kill #killing #long

If you can not answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.


— Elbert Hubbard


#humor

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. (Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)


— Elbert Hubbard


#loyalty #loyalty

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.


— Elbert Hubbard


#education

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.


— Elbert Hubbard


#intelligence

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.


— Elbert Hubbard


#goals #life #sunset #dreams

I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.


— Elbert Hubbard


#fear #hate #honesty #jealousy #problems






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Hubbard had pleaded guilty on January 11 1913 in the court of U. "[citation needed]


Conviction and pardon
As the First World War loomed on the horizon Hubbard publiElbert Hubbardd a great deal of related commentary in The Philistine and became anxious to cross the ocean report on the War and land an interview with the Kaiser himself. "
In 1908 Hubbard was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves.

Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short story A Message to Garcia. Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19 1856 – May 7 1915) was an American writer publiElbert Hubbardr artist and philosopher. Today Hubbard is mostly known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora New York an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

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