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"Wisdom must go with sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child - on a fieldmouse instead of a human soul."

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About Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, and founder of the Roycroft artisan community in New York. He wrote the widely quoted essay A Message to Garcia and died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915.

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