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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.
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Happiness
Fate
Man
Prosperity
Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
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Clothes
Delusion
Fishing
Old
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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Happiness
Unhappiness
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis
Control
Honesty
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
Family
Blood
Will
I would rather start a family than finish one.
Don Marquis
Family
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.
Don Marquis
Reading
Want
Writing
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
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People
Idea
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
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Women
Church
Devil
Theology
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
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Ideas
Instinct
Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
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Idea
Wrong
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
Time
Man
Will
Worth
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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Blood
Will
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
Don Marquis
Country
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Don Marquis
Influence
Order