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" 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
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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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" A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. "
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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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" It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. "
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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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You
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" Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. "
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" Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into. "
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Prohibition
Want
" Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. "
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Old
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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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Disagree
Country
" Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. "
Don Marquis
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Pity
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" Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. "
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Yesterday
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" Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. "
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Honesty Is
Kept
Control
" Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. "
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Virtues
Insist
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" The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. "
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Chief
Human
Obstacle
" 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. "
Don Marquis
Man
Fate
Hands
" Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. "
Don Marquis
Happiness
Unhappiness
Between
" We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. "
Don Marquis
Fair
Money
Mistakes
" By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing. "
Don Marquis
Him
Man
Knowing
" 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
" 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
" Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. "
Don Marquis
Virtue
He
Cannot
" One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream. "
Don Marquis
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Change
Care
" An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. "
Don Marquis
Guy
Experience
Much
" 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
" Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. "
Don Marquis
Much
Too Much
Will
" Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. "
Don Marquis
Seems
Teach
Other
" I would rather start a family than finish one. "
Don Marquis
Family
Rather
Finish
" 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
" There is nothing so habit-forming as money. "
Don Marquis
Money
Nothing