Six quotes by Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Presently Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Among his many publications were the nine-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short publication A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania when it was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.
Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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Life is just one damn thing after another.
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Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
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Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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