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Don Marquis has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
• A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
• When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
• Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
• Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
• Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
• The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
• Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
• A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
• Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
• By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth…

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