“Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.”

—  Elbert Hubbard

"J.B. Runs Things," Short Stories and Index: Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, Part 14 (1923) [Kessinger Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0766103978], p. 278.

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