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Don Marquis Quotes

American - Poet | July 29, 1878 - December 29, 1937

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Work Hard Work Man Rich You Hard

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Live Age Interesting Enough You Old

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Money Mistakes Ancestors Fair Pay

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

People World Rest Busy Think Up

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Progress Race Human Obstacle Chief

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

Yourself You Admission Been Reduced

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Integrity Spite Some Likeable

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.

Family Start Too Much Blood Never

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Poetry Waiting Rose Down Canyon

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

Man Virtue Must Cannot He Seduced

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.

Happiness Man Fate Hands Prosperity

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