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" Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. "
Don Marquis
Honesty Is
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" The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. "
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" A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country. "
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" I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. "
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" Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. "
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" The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. "
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" In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent. "
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" There is nothing so habit-forming as money. "
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" In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going. "
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" Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong. "
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" Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "
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" Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. "
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" If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. "
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" Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. "
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" Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. "
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" Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. "
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" Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. "
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Best
" One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream. "
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Change
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" A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. "
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" An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. "
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" Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. "
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Virtue
He
Cannot
" It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. "
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" Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. "
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" An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. "
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Experience
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" Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. "
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Yesterday
Art
" Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. "
Don Marquis
You
Old
Live
" The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality. "
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Need
Quality
" Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. "
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" A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. "
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