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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)
Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue. View quote
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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. View quote
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal virtues. Always insist on it in your subordinates and dependents. View quote
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There is nothing so habit-forming as money. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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What man calls civilization always results in deserts. View quote
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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. View quote
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. View quote
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The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. (Don Marquis)
I would rather start a family than finish one. View quote
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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream. View quote
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. View quote
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I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food, they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race. View quote
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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong. View quote
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A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. View quote
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There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. View quote
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The successful people are the ones that think up things for the rest of the work to keep busy at. View quote
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I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well. View quote
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When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue. (Don Marquis)
The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about. View quote
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Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed? View quote
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My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name. View quote
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. View quote
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Don Marquis

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: July 29, 1878
Died: December 29, 1937
Quotes count: 86
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