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"The United States will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."

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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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