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" Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. "
Don Marquis
Virtue
He
Cannot
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" 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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" In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent. "
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" When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' "
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Rich
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" One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream. "
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" Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong. "
Don Marquis
He
You
Politician
" Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "
Don Marquis
Waiting
Rose
Grand Canyon
" Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. "
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" A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. "
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Pessimist
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" A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. "
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Sequel
Been
Admission
" Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at. "
Don Marquis
Think
Busy
People
" Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. "
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Poetry
Blind
He
" Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. "
Don Marquis
Go
World
Want
" There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. "
Don Marquis
Feel
Us
Right
" Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. "
Don Marquis
Much
Too Much
Will
" Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. "
Don Marquis
Sometimes
Cloud
Funny
" Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. "
Don Marquis
Business
Ideas
Instinct
" Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "
Don Marquis
Book
Poetry
Writing
" The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. "
Don Marquis
Like
Until
Newspaper
" An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. "
Don Marquis
Guy
Experience
Much
" It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. "
Don Marquis
Takes
Make
Underworld
" 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. "
Don Marquis
Fun
Said
Best
" Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. "
Don Marquis
Spite
Likeable
Some
" Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. "
Don Marquis
Procrastination
Yesterday
Art
" I would rather start a family than finish one. "
Don Marquis
Family
Rather
Finish
" The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality. "
Don Marquis
Trouble
Need
Quality
" 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. "
Don Marquis
Finish
Family
Blood
" Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. "
Don Marquis
Delusion
Clothes
Old
" Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. "
Don Marquis
Virtues
Insist
Business
" 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
" A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't? "
Don Marquis
Hypocrite
Person
Who