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

~Don Marquis

Topics: Ask Got Hard Hard Work He Him Man Rich Tells Through Whose Work You

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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

~Don Marquis

Topics: Gun Ideas Instinct Loads Pull Trigger

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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

~Don Marquis

Topics: Art Keeping Procrastination Up Yesterday

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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

~Don Marquis

Topics: Cloud Difficult Every Get Lining Little Mint Silver Sometimes

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A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

~Don Marquis

Topics: Hypocrite Person Who

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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.

~Don Marquis

Topics: About Bartender Before By The Time Drink Else He Him Knowing Knows Little Man Orders Time Will Worth

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

~Don Marquis

Topics: Chief Human Human Race Obstacle Progress Race

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Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

~Don Marquis

Topics: Clothes Delusion Entirely Fishing Liars Old Surrounded

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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

~Don Marquis

Topics: Always Business Cardinal Insist Punctuality Virtues Your

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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

~Don Marquis

Topics: Make People Sort Takes Underworld

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: July 29th, 1878

Died: December 29th, 1937

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