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Elbert Green Hubbard est un artiste, écrivain et philosophe américain mais aussi « un philosophe, un vendeur de savon, entrepreneur, artiste vaudeville, bohème, bigame, cavalier, humoriste, imprimeur, romancier, moraliste, agriculteur, égoïste, menteur, plagiaire, fervent partisan de la grande entreprise, avide défenseur des droits individuels, anti-intellectuelle, défenseur des arts, machiste, pro-féministe », selon IY Hashimoto du Whitman College.

Il a influencé le mouvement des Arts & Crafts et est resté célèbre pour son essai Message à Garcia. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. juin 1856 – 7. mai 1915   •   Autres noms Elbert Green Hubbard
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Elbert Hubbard: Citations en anglais

“An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.”

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)

“Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.”

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 11.

“If we ever damned it will not be because we have loved too much, but because we have loved too little.”

A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

“The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.”

A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

“Should we have an Eleventh Commandment?" asked a youth of the Greatest Living Actress. "Most assuredly, no - we have ten too many now!”

answered the divine Sara.
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 17.

“Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.”

A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

“It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P. S.: I never inherited any money.”

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 10.

“Too often the reformer has been one who caused the rich to band themselves against the poor.”

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 14.

“The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.”

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 10.

“Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.”

The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=AoxHAAAAYAAJ&q="Philosophy+rests+on+a+proposition+that+whatever+is+is+right+preaching+begins+by+assuming+that+whatever+is+is+wrong"&pg=PA130#v=onepage (October 1897).

“Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.”

The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=Y4lHAAAAYAAJ&q="Piety+is+the+tin-foil+of+pretense"&pg=RA1-PA115#v=onepage (September 1908).

“Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.”

A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

“Life is a compromise between fate and free will.”

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 36

“A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.”

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)

“The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.”

The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=b0kLAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+graveyards+are+full+of+people+the+world+could+not+do+without%22&pg=PA190#v=onepage (May 1907)