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Title: Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14)
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14)
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF AMERICAN STATESMEN
by
ELBERT HUBBARD
Memorial Edition
1916
CONTENTS
THE LITTLE JOURNEYS CAMP
GEORGE WASHINGTON
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
THOMAS JEFFERSON
SAMUEL ADAMS
JOHN HANCOCK
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
DANIEL WEBSTER
HENRY CLAY
JOHN JAY
WILLIAM H. SEWARD
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
THE LITTLE JOURNEYS CAMP
BERT HUBBARD
A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little
more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the
past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; a brave
looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and
the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.
--Elbert Hubbard
[Illustration: THE LITTLE JOURNEYS CAMP]
It was not built with the idea of ever becoming a place in history: simply
a boys' cabin in the woods.
Fibe, Rich, Pie and Butch were the bunch that built it.
Fibe was short for Fiber, and we gave him that name because his real name
was Wood. Rich got his name from being a mudsock. Pie got his because he
was a regular pieface. And they called me Butch for no reason at all
except that perhaps my great-great-grandfather was a butcher.
We were a fine ga
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