Don Marquis Quotes
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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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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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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
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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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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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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
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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 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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well well boss there issomething to be saidfor the lyric and imperialattitudebelieve that everything is foryou until you discover that you are for itsing your faith in what youget to eat right up to theminute you are eatenfor you are going to be eaten
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no insect likes human beings and if you think you can see why the only reason i tolerate you is because you seem less human to me than most of them
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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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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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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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there is bound to be a certain amount oftrouble running any countryif you are president the trouble happens to youbut if you are a tyrant you can arrange things sothat most of the trouble happens to other people
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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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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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Men could not think of THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE if they did not have it in them ultimately to create THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE.
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
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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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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.