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" When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' "
Don Marquis
Work
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Hard
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" Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. "
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" Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "
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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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" Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. "
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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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" Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. "
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" Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. "
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" A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't? "
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" The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. "
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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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" Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. "
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" The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. "
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" It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. "
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" Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. "
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" An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. "
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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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" Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. "
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Waiting
Rose
Grand Canyon
" 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
" An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. "
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Experience
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" A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. "
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Sequel
Been
Admission
" There is nothing so habit-forming as money. "
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Money
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" We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. "
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Money
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" A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. "
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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. "
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Go
World
Want
" 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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Man
Fate
Hands
" Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. "
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Yesterday
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" By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing. "
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" 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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