"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it." - Elbert Hubbard.
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Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher.
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.
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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.
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