"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"
-Don Marquis
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"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.“
-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."
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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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"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."
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