Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Green Hubbard 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. 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.
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Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes."
"The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been…"
"If you want work well done, select a busy man ‚ the other kind has no time."
"The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living."
"And the worst part about making a soldier of a man is not that a soldier kills brown men or white men, but that the soldier loses his own soul."
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1856
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Birth1915
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