"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"
-Don Marquis
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"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists."
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"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."
-Don Marquis
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"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
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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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"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."
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"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
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"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
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"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't."
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"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."
-George Washington
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