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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a mans hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. – Don Marquis

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

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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. – Don Marquis

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